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#147064 09/01/05 06:54 PM
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Same goes for the pollen from lillies.

Only a rookie priest (the one with the yellow stains on his alb) fails to notice the difficulty of removing lilly pollen from vestments, especially white vestments. This is why the members of the altar guild laboriously remove the stamens from the Easter lilies (in another room) before setting them out in the church for Easter morning.


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>>alb

Is this word related to the Italian "alba"?


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alb

The term for the modern ecclesiatsical vestment derives from "vestis alba" which just meant white garment.


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So getting egg white out of the vestment isn't a problem, yes?


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"albumen. 1599, "white of an egg," from L. albumen "white of an egg," lit. "whiteness," from albus "white" (see alb). The organic substance (which exists nearly pure in egg whites) so called from 1800, also known as albumin (1869, from Fr. albumine)."

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=albumen

Good one, AnnaS.


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