DictionaryRoot: album
Latin

album

white board; list of names

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A vinyl music record partly drawn from an illustrated sleeve with several track-like lines but no words, turntable nearby.
noun

album

AL-buhm/ˈælbəm/

A collection of selected material assembled as one work or record.

Etymology

A white board displaying names became a book collecting signatures and souvenirs, then photographs. The musical sense arose because record sleeves resembled those collection books.

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