Ale vs Albe - What's the difference?
ale | albe |
An intoxicating liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of a bitter, usually hops.
A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk.
(obsolete) Although; despite the fact that.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
As an interjection ale
is let's go!, come on!.As a proper noun albe is
.ale
English
Noun
- Note: The word ale, in England and the United States, usually designates a heavier kind of fermented liquor, and the word beer a lighter kind. The word beer is also in common use as the generic name for all non-distilled malt liquors.
Synonyms
* (liquor) beer (loosely), yillDerived terms
() * alehouse * alewife * ginger ale * pale ale * real aleAnagrams
* ----albe
English
Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)- Why should not that dead carrion satisfie / The guilt, which if he liued had thus long, / His life for due reuenge should deare abie? / The trespasse still doth liue, albe the person die.
