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albino (n.)
1777, from Spanish or Portuguese
albino
, from Latin
albus
"white" (see
alb
). Used by Portuguese of white-spotted African negroes. Extended 1859 to animals having the same peculiarity. A female albino formerly was an
albiness
(1808).
