Noun:

கணுக்கால் அளவிற்கு நீண்டு இருக்கும் பாதிரிகள் அணியும் வெண்மையான உடை,

albs's Usage Examples:

uses and not modelled on that of modern Rome, these albs are frequently apparelled.

In the medieval inventories are sometimes found albae, described as red, blue or black; which has led to the belief that albs were sometimes not only made of stuffs other than linen, but were coloured.

It is clear, however, from the descriptions of these vestments that in some cases they were actually tunicles, the confusion of terms arising from the similarity of shape (see Dalmatic); in other cases the colour applied to the parures, not to the albs as a whole.

In the middle ages the parures, which originally had no mystic intention whatever, were taken to symbolize the wounds of Christ; whence probably is derived the custom surviving at the cathedral of Toledo, of the singers of the Passion on Good Friday being vested in apparelled albs.

"a white alb plain with a vestment or cope," while the assisting priests or deacons are to wear "albs with tunicles.

At the present time, so far as the Roman Catholic Church is concerned, apparelled albs are only in regular use at Milan (Ambrosian Rite), and, partially, in certain churches in Spain.

"Silk albs appear in the inventories, but only very exceptionally.

It is agreed on all sides that the last stanza, attributing the authorship to Halbsuter of Lucerne, "as he came back from the battle," is a very late addition.

Its use was furiously assailed by the extremer Reformers but, in spite of their efforts, was retained by Elizabeth's Act of Uniformity, and enforced by the advertisements and injunctions issued under her authority, which ordered the "massing vestments" - chasubles, albs, stoles and the like - to be destroyed.

Silk albs appear in the inventories, but only very exceptionally.

A good example of the camisia of the 12th century is the rochet of Thomas Becket, preserved at Dammartin in the Pas de Calais, the only surviving medieval example remarkable for the pleating which, as was the case with albs also, gave greater breadth and more elaborate folds.

a white alb plain with a vestment or cope," while the assisting priests or deacons are to wear "albs with tunicles.

e rubric, the Protestant bishops and the commissioners made short work of such "popish stuff" as chasubles, albs and the like.