album

Definition

In Ancient Rome, a white tablet or register on which the praetor's edicts and other public notices were recorded.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin album (“blank white writing tablet”), from albus (“white”).

Example Sentences

• "Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet."
• "In his free time, he used to open his album and add new pictures to it."
• "This mixture was to be effected either by drawing the juries partly from the senate (of about 300 members), partly from an album of 300 equites (Plut. CG 5.2, Comp. 2.1), or by adlecting 600 equites into the senate and drawing the juries from this new senatorial order (Liv. Per. 60)."