† albumn.1
Obsolete. rare.
1. Medicine. = leucorrhœa n. Cf. white n. 14.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun] > leucorrhoea
white flux1526
album1527
white1527
white flood1527
white menstruosity1599
fluor albus1659
eluvies1710
leucorrhœa1797
xanthorrhœa1891
1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Gv Good agaynst that Album or whyte in women [Ger. weiss der frawen].
2. Rent paid in silver; white rent (white rent n. at white adj. and n. Compounds 1f).
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > rent (land or real property) > [noun] > paid in money
penny-rent1502
white rent1562
album1677
1677 R. Thoroton Antiq. Notts. 113/2 King Henry the third..commanded the Sheriff not to exact (Album) the white Rent of William Daubigny out of the Mannor of Oskinton.
1691 Blount's Νομο-λεξικον (ed. 2) Album, used for white Rent, or Rent paid in Silver.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
albumn.2
/ˈalbəm/, U.S. /ˈælbəm/ 1.
a. A book in which contributions (such as signatures, memorial verses, and epigrams) are inscribed for the owner, esp. as mementos or keepsakes. Also more generally: a collection of literary items. Also figurative. Now chiefly historical.The pages of the album are initially blank or lightly formatted.autograph, family, travelling album: see the first element.
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society > communication > record > written record > album or commonplace book > [noun]
book of commonplaces1562
adversaria1571
commonplace book1572
stem-book1592
commonplace1607
album1612
commonplacera1631
topic folio1644
place-booka1659
pocketbook1660
blank book1713
scrap-book1825
guard book1839
press book1897
society > communication > book > kind of book > [noun] > blank book to contain collections
album1612
autograph album1829
autograph book1830
1612 H. Wotton Let. 2 Dec. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) sig. e8 In his Album of Friends after the German custome.
1651 I. Walton Life of Wotton in H. Wotton Reliquiæ Wottonianæ sig. cv Was requested by Christopher Flecamore to write some Sentence in his Albo.
1652 E. Benlowes Theophila sig. B3v Who in Loves Albo are enrol'd, Unutterable Joyes behold.
1709 R. Thoresby Diary 12 Jan. (1830) II. 21 The Venetian Ambassador, who readily obliged me with his motto in my album.
1757 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 23 Sept. (1932) (modernized text) V. 2242 I do not mean a German album, stuffed with people's names and Latin sentences.
1787 European Mag. Aug. 153/1 (title of poem) Lines written in the album, at Cossey-Hall, Norfolk, by Mr. Jerningham.
1800 E. Malone Let. 6 Dec. in Percy Lett. (1944) I. 85 The ardour in Germany to see him was..great... He was requested to write his name in innumerable Albums.
1824 J. Montgomery (title) The chimney-sweeper's friend, and climbing-boy's album.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxiii. 571 Grignac..made caricatures of Tapeworm in all the albums of the place.
1909 E. C. Mayne Enchanters of Men (ed. 2) 339 The young Swinburne..writes a dainty French trifle in her Album (she kept an Album for her distinguished men's contributions), calling it Dolorida.
1997 G. Hosking Russia (1998) iii. vii. 290 Literary improvisation in the form of epigrams, bouts-rimes, and verses penned in the albums of young ladies and society hostesses.
b. A book used to record the details or comments of those attending a building or institution; spec. (a) (more fully visitors' album) a visitors' book; (b) a register containing the names of those who are matriculated within a school, university, etc.The pages of the album are initially blank or lightly formatted.
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society > education > educational administration > school administration > [noun] > register or account book
album1775
schoolbook1865
logbook1872
society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > [noun] > visitors' book
album1775
visiting-book1818
visitors' book1846
1775 W. Mason in T. Gray Poems I. ii. 115 He went out of his way to make a second visit to the Grand Chartreuse, and there wrote in the Album of the Fathers the following Alcaic Ode.
1822 J. Flint Lett. from Amer. 294 In the album kept at one of these [taverns]..a hundred folio pages had been written with names within five months.
1856 E. M. Goulburn Bk. Rugby School iv. 119 Here Mr. Robert Ashbridge, in 1674, commenced the School Album or Register of Admissions, which has been duly kept ever since.
1867 Catholic World May 213/1 Every student was obliged to present himself..in order to have his name put down in the album of the university.., to be matriculated.
1904 Notes & Queries 30 Apr. 347/2 There are some lines, written years ago, in the visitors' album of the ‘White Lion’ at Bala which should not be lost.
1982 K. L. Sprunger Dutch Puritanism viii. 212 The [Utrecht] university album contains 203 English and Scottish names for the period 1680–1720.
2001 D. Stevens Monteverdi in Venice i. 33 Sir William McKie, on a visit to us in London in October 1963, wrote this note in our visitors' album.
c. A book used for the collection and preservation of miscellaneous items; esp. one for the collection and display of photographs (or variously of stamps, postcards, newspaper clippings, etc.). Cf. scrap-book n. 1.family, photo, photograph, postcard, stamp album, etc.: see the first element.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > hobby > collecting other articles > [noun] > album
family album1815
album1849
1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) vi. 108 If Miss Mowcher cuts the Prince's nails, she must be all right. I give 'em away to the young ladies. They put 'em in albums, I believe.
1859 All Year Round 19 Nov. 79 An album full of photographs.
1878 Paper & Print. Jrnl. xxv. 11 A still greater novelty is an album containing twenty-four Welsh costumes.
1910 Everybody's Mag. July 81/1 Her daughter would not be willing to put these postal cards in her album.
1955 ‘Miss Read’ Village School xxiii. 227 That little girl..whose photograph I had seen in the album at Beech Green.
1992 Independent 29 Dec. 5/8 He also sees endless albums of cigarette-cards.
2001 Cosmopolitan Dec. 226/3 Put all those photos from your summer at the beach into an album.
2. Roman History. A tablet or board (usually whitened) on which information is presented in writing to be viewed by the public; spec. one containing items of public interest in a listed form, such as praetorial edicts, the names of officials, tables of public notices, etc.; a public register. Also more generally: a list.
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society > communication > record > list > [noun]
tableOE
scorec1325
billa1340
calendar?a1400
legendc1400
librarya1450
Ragmanc1450
Ragman rollc1450
cataloguea1464
repertory1542
scrowa1545
bedroll?1552
roll1565
file1566
state1582
inventory1589
brief1600
series1601
counter-roll1603
list1604
muster roll1605
cense1615
pinax1625
repertoirec1626
diagram1631
recensiona1638
repertorium1667
vocabulary1694
albe1697
enumeration1725
screed1748
album1753
tableau1792
roll-call1833
shopping list1923
laundry list1958
remainder list1977
society > communication > writing > written text > writing on specific things > [noun] > on tablet
albe1697
album1753
tablet writing1896
tablet letter1899
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) The high-priest entered the chief transactions of each year into an album, or table, which was hung up in his house for the public use.
1829 E. Cathcart tr. C. von Savigny Hist. Rom. Law Middle Ages ii. 76 These regulations are explained, and confirmed by the Album of the city of Canusium, in Apulia, A. C. 223... In it, the names of the Decurions are all given.
1842 W. Smith Dict. Greek & Rom. Antiq. 33/2 The album was so called, because it was either a white material, or a material whitened.
1842 W. Smith Dict. Greek & Rom. Antiq. 33/2 The list of decuriones whose names were entered on the album of a municipium.
1909 G. W. Botsford Rom. Assemblies xvi. 398 He planned to compose the jurors' album of six hundred senators and knights in equal numbers.
1974 P. Garnsey in Aufstieg u. Niedergang der Römischen Welt 245 The other album of which we have a respectable portion..belongs to the fourth century.
2010 A. M. Riggsby Rom. Law & Legal World of Romans ix. 89 The situation with the album of the praetor's Edict. Someone who wanted to know what was in one of these laws would have to find..the location where it was set up.
3.
a. A holder resembling a book, used for the storage of gramophone records. Cf. sense 1c. Now rare.Originally as the second element in compounds. Recorded earliest in record album n.
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1904 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 13 May 7/4 (advt.) Arrived per R.M.S. Tagus the first shipment of gramophones, gramophone records, gramophone needles, record albums.
1912 Lloyd's Weekly News 5 May 23/6 (advt.) Handsome disc albums free to purchasers of 19 ‘Butterfly’ 10in. Double Discs.
1913 G. F. Rowell Hints about Gramophone 53 The most efficient way of storing records is in the albums specially sold for the purpose, which may be placed on a shelf..just like books.
1925–6 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Fall 391/1 Each album will hold 12 records.
1942 El Paso (Texas) Herald-Post 7 May 9/3 (advt.) Savings on Record Player, Records, Needles, and Album.
b. A set or collection of related records (record n.1 8a), packaged and sold together (originally esp. in a holder resembling a book; cf. sense 3a). Cf. boxed set n. at boxed adj. Compounds 2. Now chiefly historical.
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1928 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 28 Oct. 12/6 A number of the same group of singers who made the records for the new Victor album of Stephen Foster melodies.
1942 Billboard 28 Mar. 112/4 Representative Mexican music by popular Mexican singers makes tip the eightsides for this album.
1950 Billboard 16 Dec. 38/2 Albums of 78's and 45's will cover six disks.
1967 Times 16 Dec. (advt.) A four record album with illustrated colour brochure.
2005 C. Benson in F. Hoffmann Encycl. Recorded Sound (ed. 2) I. 465/1 Guthrie recorded for RCA a famous album of 78s, called The Dust Bowl Ballads, in 1940, originally issued on two six-disc sets.
c. A collection of recordings issued as a single item on record, cassette, CD, etc.double, mini-, pop, rock album, etc.: see the first element.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > type of record
pre-release1871
record album1904
re-release1907
ten-inch1908
twelve-incher1909
demonstration record1911
pressing1912
swinger1924
repressing1927
transcription1931
long-player1932
rush release1935
pop record1937
album1945
demonstration disc1947
pop disc1947
pop single1947
long-play1948
picture disc1948
781949
single1949
forty-five1950
demo disc1952
EP1952
shellac1954
top of the pops1956
gold disc1957
acetate1962
platinum disc1964
chartbuster1965
miss1965
cover1966
reissue1966
pirate label1968
rock record1968
thirty-three (and a third)1968
sampler1969
white-label1970
double album1971
dubplate1976
seven-inch1977
mini-album1980
joint1991
1945 Billboard 15 Dec. 14/2 De Luxe has contracted for a series of seven one-record albums.
1947 Down Beat 13 Aug. 1/4 Stan Kenton next month returns to the band business... First recordings will be for an album to be titled Concert in Progressive Jazz.
1952 Billboard 25 Oct. 47/1 (advt.) New 1-record albums reduce the price of top pop albums by top stars to the unbelievably low cost of $1.40.
1957 Gramophone Apr. 427/2 That he was too little appreciated in his lifetime makes this memorial album (another record is to follow) even more..important.
1977 C. McKnight & J. Tobler Bob Marley ix. 108 The cheapo-cheapo efforts which had been the rule for just about every previous reggae album.
1986 Billboard 18 Oct. 33/2 He is scheduled to perform several songs from his new acoustic album.
1992 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 14 Feb. (Big City Beat section) 1 Ex-Houstonian Bill Hicks is home in Houston to do a one-nighter... Invasion Records will release his second album, ‘Relentless’, March 15.
2011 Spin Jan. 50/1 I was not interested enough in this song to download the whole album.
Compounds
C1. attributive.
a. With the sense ‘suitable for inclusion in an album (in sense 1a)’, as album piece, album sketch, album verse, etc. Frequently depreciative, used to suggest that such pieces are of inferior quality, or are unworthy of serious consideration.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > bad poem or doggerel poem > [adjective]
doggerelc1405
album1828
verselessc1873–4
stuffed owl1941
stuffed-owlish1960
1828 Kaleidoscope 11 Nov. 160/3 Album Poetry. We presume that the writer of the lines accompanying the drawing of a Miser, must be of the Cockney school. How else are we to account for Miser and Elizer being introduced as allowable rhymes?
1850 D. G. Mitchell Lorgnette II. ix. 203 A town-artist..who, between album sketches..was doing an execution with his moonlight poetry.
1864 C. E. Turner Our Great Writers I. iii. 37 Those pedantic improvements..which, by robbing Chaucer of his simplicity, convert his poetry into the polished jargon of modern album-verse.
1881 Cent. Mag. Dec. 268/2 Quite a volume of first-rate album-verse has been left in the visitors' books.
1918 V. Woolf Writer's Diary 7 Aug. (1953) 3 I'm much impressed by the extreme badness of B[yron]'s poetry... Why did they think this album stuff the finest fire of poetry?
1967 V. Smith At Exhib. of Hist. Paintings, Hobart in Island South 4 Album pieces: bowls of brown glazed fruit.
1996 G. Hammarberg in H. Goscilo & B. Holmgren Russia—Women—Culture iv. xii. 313 More aggressive flatterers..advised potential competitors how to write album verse, or discouraged them from writing altogether.
b. U.S. Of, relating to, or designating a handmade quilt comprising a variety of blocks, each made by a different person and often bearing the signature of the contributor; as album block, album quilt.Album quilts were popular in the mid 19th cent. and were traditionally made to commemorate events or as gifts for people moving away from an area.
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1845 Evangelical Mag. 8 Aug. 255/1 Just so we all felt and acted yesterday, on receiving from Utica, an Album Quilt, composed and put together by more than 100 of our friends.
1854 L. Linden Chestnut Wood II. iii. 52 An album bed quilt, with the solemn verse..marked upon the plain white centre square, and upon every other square of which it was composed, was written the name of the maker and donor.
1894 J. E. Wood Untempered Wind xi. 124 Ann's got eight quilts all pieced now; this is the album pattern.
1901 E. E. Bailey Happy Day xii. 257 We were especially remembered by the church with the beautiful album quilt.
1995 M. Cobb Quilt-block Hist. Pioneer Days 14 The quilt makers would agree upon a certain album block, and then each person in the group would make up the quilt block in their own choice of fabrics.
2001 Sunday Capital (Annapolis, Maryland) 8 July e6/1 The quilts on exhibit at the MHS tell the entire story of the history of the album quilt tradition.
C2.
a. General attributive in sense 3, as album jacket, album title, etc.
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1940 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Amer. 29 Sept. 19/4 Advance orders for the new Victor ‘The Heart of the Symphony’ album indicate that the set will break every existing album sales record.
1947 Billboard 29 Mar. 182/3 Records shipped without album jacket for review.
1965 Negro Digest Aug. 48 There's a Latin mood this time out, as the album title indicates.
1977 Washington Post 2 Feb. c8 The album artwork is virtually identical to that of ‘A Night at the opera’, with the color scheme merely being reversed.
1985 Times 2 Dec. 10/6 In the early 1970s album sales overtook singles, which meant far more songs were needed.
1990 S. Freedman Small Victories xi. 269 After placing it on the record player, a portable antiquated enough for a sock hop, she hands Lisa Carerra the album jacket.
2010 Esquire Oct. 202/1 They don't see each other much outside touring or recording these days, but they're still tight—as their album title attests.
b.
album chart n.
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1962 Washington Post 5 Oct. b10/5 Garner's LP ‘Closeup in Swing’ has risen to No. 4 on the best-seller album charts.
2008 P. Norman John Lennon (2009) xix. 497 It topped the UK album chart for twenty-seven weeks, selling half a million copies in its first month.
album sleeve n.
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1957 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 8 Sept. 21/2 The performer's notes for the album sleeve are most illuminating.
2006 D. Y. Béchard Vandal Love 123 They'd listened to Motorhead and Iron Maiden, spending entire days flopped on couches, staring at album sleeves.
C3.
album board n. a type of board (board n. 3a) used for the pages of photograph, stamp, and other albums; a sheet of this; cf. album paper n.
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1865 Commerc. Reg. 13/2 in Trow's N.Y. City Directory 78 App. Manufacturer of printers' card stock, album boards, photographic and passe-partout boards, [etc.].
1895 World's Paper Trade Rev. 2 Aug. 23/1 Press and album board.
1937 E. J. Labarre Dict. Paper 97/1 Album papers and boards are cover papers, or double thick pasted board..intended for photographic albums.
2006 H. Holik Handbk. Paper & Board xi. 465 Album board is..often wood-free and voluminous.
album cover n. the cover of an album; spec. the artwork and lettering on the front cover of an album (sense 3c).
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society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > cover
forel1393
surpelc1440
covering1459
coverturea1475
heeling1498
lid1585
cover1599
binding1648
book cover1649
case1750
album cover1839
bookcase1885
society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > other parts
jacket sleeve1599
album cover1839
label1907
jacket1935
record sleeve1951
1839 Jrnl. Amer. Inst. Mar. 311 An almost endless variety of useful, ornamental, and fancy articles, consisting of tea trays, work tables,..port folio and album covers, tea caddies, [etc.].
1964 Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune 25 May 4/3 Such a pleasant relief to come upon a good taste, non-corny album cover in the sea of glitzy nudie, precious, unimaginative LP sleeves.
1986 C. Matheson & E. Solomon Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (film script, 5th draft) (O.E.D. Archive) 62 Ted. (looks around) So this is the future... Bill. (looks around, nods) Looks like a Yes album cover.
2000 M. Gayle Turning Thirty lii. 207 ‘Well, this,’ I said, looking at the album cover, ‘is called Off the Wall.’
album deal n. a legal agreement which contracts a performer or group to make one or more albums for a particular record company; cf. record deal n.
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1947 Billboard 22 Mar. 3/3 (heading) ‘Brigadoon’ album deal set by Cheryl Crawford with Victor.
1989 Independent (Nexis) 21 Apr. (Arts section) 19 For long-term albums deals..bands should look abroad.
2010 C. Campion Walking on Moon xi. 169 Copeland released an EP..and used the buzz to negotiate an album deal with Columbia.
album paper n. any of various types of paper typically thicker than normal paper, used for the pages of photographic, stamp, and other albums.
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1878 Communication from Comptroller 114 (table) in Documents Board of Aldermen N.Y. (1879) No. 5. Scovill Mfg. Co... Glass and album paper.
1886 Photographer's World 15 Mar. 15/1 The sales of album paper during 1886 experienced such an increase that it was found necessary to take another building.
1936 C. J. West Bibliogr. Pulp & Paper Making 612 Changes in the composition of thick album paper and oiled paper.
1985 Pop. Mech. May 98/2 Certain types of envelopes and album papers..might contain chemicals that react harmfully with color dyes.
2006 E. Robertson Arp iv. 164 The frayed, fibrous edges of the thick black album paper Arp used for his papiers déchirés.
album track n. a song or other track included on an album (sense 3c), esp. one not released as a single.
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1962 Billboard Music Week 3 Feb. 16/5 A waiver enables the groups own album tracks to be issued on LP.
1989 Q Dec. 162/2 This 22-track compilation includes the first seven singles, assorted album tracks..and some rarer stuff.
2009 J. Wright & R. Weinberg Rock Roadie (2010) ii. 19 The average single in the 1960s lasted approximately two-and-a-half minutes. The four-and-a-half minutes of ‘The House of the Rising Sun’ was therefore considered only as an album track.
album version n. (originally) a recording of a concert performance, stage show, etc., released on an album; (now chiefly) the version of a song or other track featured on an album, as opposed to the version released as a single or played live.
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1945 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 27 May 10/8 (advt.) Peter and the Wolf... A Musicraft album version especially for children.
1968 Billboard 1 June 85/5 Their best-known numbers including a 9:45 ‘Up in Her Room’, which actually is shorter than a previous album version.
2012 M. Katz Groove Music 97 Listen closely to the album version of ‘Rockit’, and you'll realize that you never hear the word fully articulated.
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