Albertine

[ al-ber-teen; French al-ber-teen; German ahl-ber-tee-nuh ]

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noun

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Her response was a “very un-macho, uncool, and unexciting one,” according to Albertine.

After growing up in the London projects, Viv Albertine became a guitarist in one of the first all-girl punk bands.

Albertine was forced to move back in with her mother with no sign of a future career.

The Fugitive opens with the flight of the narrator's own obsessive love interest, Albertine.

Albertine was never to him anything more than a means toward the satisfaction of his own needs, ego needs and sensual needs.

Look, Albertine, said he, and with me thank the chance enabling me to do a good turn for one of my brothers.

Gilbert profited by their being so engaged, to carry away Sebastian, guided by Albertine who fastened up the outer door after him.

It was cautiously opened by Albertine, a woman with whom Marat cohabited, and who passed for his wife.

Albertine came to him and told him that her brother had always spoken with scorn of Robespierre as a man of words.

From the two princes so rescued, descended respectively the Ernestine and the Albertine branches of the Saxon house.

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