albata

British

/ ælˈbeɪtə /

noun

a variety of German silver consisting of nickel, copper, and zinc

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Etymology

Origin of albata

C19: from Latin, literally: clothed in white, from albus white

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Came home with a wagon-load of things—four albata tea-pots without lids or handles; two posts of a bedstead and three slats; a couple of churns and fourteen second-hand sun-bonnets, and more mournful refuse like that.

From Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot by Clark, Charles Heber

My sister is not albata ware,—that you hate, Mrs. Sheppard.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 by Various

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