Brewer's: Alb

The long white tunic (Latin, albus, white) bound round the waist with a girdle. The dress is emblematical of purity and continence, and worn by priests when saying Mass.

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