Meaning
In medieval Latin "albanus" (pl. albani) meaned "stranger, coming from abroad, foreigner", possibly from the Latin alibi. It was also an old French Law term meaning “a man belonging to a different jurisdiction”.
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“We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.”
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—Stephen Bayley, British historian, art critic. “Taste: The Story of an Idea,” Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things, Random House (1991)