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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

Albati

Alba′ti

The white brethren. Certain Christian fanatics of the fourteenth century, so called because they dressed in white. Also the recently baptised. (Latin.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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