A choir gives back menace and echo, assisting about the altar's horns, the snorted Latin of jackpriests moving burly in their ALBS, tonsured and oiled and gelded, fat with the fat of kidneys of wheat.
"Ulysses"
James Joyce
She had given so many ornaments, and ALBS, and chasubles, she has crowned the canopy with so many feathers, that on the occasion of the last Corpus Christi procession as great a crowd came together as to see a man hanged, just to stare at the priests in their splendid dresses and all the vessels regilt.
"A Second Home"
Honore de Balzac
Dalmatics of plush make breeches for him who had none; linen ALBS will clip into shirts for the Defenders of the Country: old-clothesmen, Jew or Heathen, drive the briskest trade.
"A Wanderer in Paris"
E. V. Lucas