(pronounced al-a-pah): Alba is the Gaelic name for Scotland A number of motorists in Scotland, even non-Gaelic speaking ones, have Alba on the nationality plates on their cars
A type of lyrical poetry, traditionally Provençal, about lovers who must part at dawn
(O Fr aubade) Dawn song This poem usually focuses on two lovers and a watchman who is either for, against, or neutral to the lover but whose role is to announce the coming dawn which will cause the lovers to part