aube
See also: Aube
English
Noun
aube (plural aubes)
- Obsolete form of alb.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Fuller to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “aube”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old French albe, from Vulgar Latin alba, from Latin albus (“white”).
Noun
aube f (plural aubes)
Synonyms
- aurore f
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin alba.
Noun
aube f (plural aubes)
Etymology 3
Probably from Latin alapa (“blow, slap, smack”), of uncertain origin.
Noun
aube f (plural aubes)
- (technology) paddle, blade
- vane (of windmill)
- small plank
Synonyms
- (paddle): palette f
- (plank): planchette f
Anagrams
Further reading
- “aube”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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