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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The inhabitants of Albi, a city in southern France. plural, plural-only
2. 2
   a Christian religious sect in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; believers in Albigensianism wordnet
3. 3
   A sect of reformers opposed to the Roman Catholic Church in the 12th century AD, considered heretics who were subject to the Albigensian Crusade; a branch of the Catharists, distinct from the Waldenses. historical, plural, plural-only

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catharicathars

Etymology

From Medieval Latin, from French Albi.

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