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English
Pronunciation
Noun
aube (plural aubes)
- Obsolete form of alb.
1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge, since the Conquest, : Iohn Williams ], →OCLC:For washing eleven aubes and as many head-clothes
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French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old French albe, from Vulgar Latin *alba, from Latin albus (“white”).
Noun
aube f (plural aubes)
- dawn, sunrise, daybreak
- Synonyms: aurore, point du jour, lever du jour, lever du soleil
- Coordinate terms: crépuscule, coucher de soleil
- beginning
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin alba.
Noun
aube f (plural aubes)
- (religion) alb
Etymology 3
Probably from Latin alapa (“blow, slap, smack”), of uncertain origin.
Noun
aube f (plural aubes)
- (technology) paddle, blade
- Synonym: palette f
- vane (of windmill)
- small plank
- Synonym: planchette f
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Middle English
Noun
aube
- Alternative form of awbe
Old Tupi
Noun
aube
- Lamy spelling of aoba