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noun
A type of lyrical poetry, traditionally Provençal, about lovers who must part at dawn.
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[PULLMAN turns to ALBA] Which must make you the punch-happy prostitute.
Despite the rhetoric, these do not include the United States: Barack Obama's response to ALBA has been to yawn.
In July of that year, they went to Alba, Italy, to visit cousins of Mr. Bradley who own a vineyard there.
"We went to Alba, where Gérard was named king of truffles, then to Rome to see mozzarella, then to Bari for olive oil and dried tomatoes, then to Milan -- where he had some work -- to eat Amanita mushrooms".
Resenting the threat of the Duke of Alba's Spanish army in the Netherlands, Cecil nearly precipitated war in December 1568 by instigating the seizure of ships carrying bullion to Alba, who retaliated by closing Antwerp to English trade.
We start out in Genoa and then north through the rolling hills of Piedmont in full autumn colour to Alba (with an indoor truffle market resembling a fossil fair you might find around Lyme Regis: rows of white truffles meticulously lined up in glass display cases on paper doilies or patterned tea towels).
8.56pm BST 25 min: Messi, whom there has been no reason to mention so far (other than to point out that there has been no reason to mention him so far, which, come to think of it, is indeed remarkable), collects the ball at the edge of the Real area and fizzes an incisive ball to Alba, who sneaks behind the Real defence.
This was in reference to Alba's newfound steeliness in the role of Nancy Callahan.
According to Alba, "it's really, really, really hard" to do a startup.
Romans loved a good scourging, and made sure their trips to Greece coincided with this event, like Americans going to Alba for the truffle festival.
For a complete contrast, head north to Alba, one of the Langhe valley's foodiest towns, close to the languorous, epicurean epicentre of Italy's Slow Food movement, in the area close to Turin.
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