Albertine

American  

[al-ber-teen, al-ber-teen, ahl-ber-tee-nuh] / ˈæl bərˌtin, al bɛrˈtin, ˌɑl bɛrˈti nə /

Also Albertina

noun

1. a first name: derived from Albert.

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Example Sentences

Sister Albertine showed me how the English language could sing on the page.

From The Wall Street Journal

Shortly after I filed my request form, Grace Ávila, the order’s assistant archivist, reached me with the news that Sister Albertine had died at 88 in 1999.

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Sister Albertine had been a prodigy, securing an office job in a construction company when she was 14.

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It happened after a glance at my personal library prompted memories of my first-grade teacher, Sister Albertine Winkler, who taught me in 1970.

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Scanning my bookcase, which contains a few hundred volumes, it occurred to me that none of them would make sense if Sister Albertine hadn’t grown me into a reader.

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