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Album

1. A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc.

2. A register for visitors' names; a visitors' book.

3. A blank book, in which to insert autographs sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs, etc.

Origin: L, neut. Of albus white: cf. F. Album. Cf. Alb.