Definition of Ambries

1. Noun. (plural of ambry) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ambries

1. ambry [n] - See also: ambry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ambries

ambonoclasts
ambos
amboyna
amboyna pine
amboyna wood
amboynas
ambragresia
ambre-gris
ambreate
ambreates
ambreic
ambreic acid
ambrein
ambrette
ambrettes
ambries (current term)
ambrisentan
ambrite
ambroid
ambroids
ambrosia
ambrosiac
ambrosial
ambrosially
ambrosian
ambrosias
ambrosin
ambrosins
ambrotype
ambrotypes

Literary usage of Ambries

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Some Account of Domestic Architecture in England, from Richard II. to Henry by John Henry Parker (1859)
"In a manuscript in the British Museum we have two beautiful representations of buffets or cupboards, with ambries in the middle, and a shelf above and below ..."

2. Cathedral Antiquities: Historical and Descriptive Accounts, with 311 by John Britton (1836)
"East of the latter is a little vestry, which still contains the ambries. ... In the vestry, over the ambries, is a niche, corresponding with those over the ..."

3. The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland from the Earliest Christian by Ross, Thomas, David MacGibbon (1897)
"Such are the ambries or sacrament houses at ... Tt also authorises the name of sacrament house for these ornamental ambries. Tt is as follows :— THIS • PNT ..."

4. New Curiosities of Literature: And Book of the Months by George Soane (1849)
"... north and south side there were ambries § of fine wainscot, varnished and finely painted, and gilt over with fine little images very beautiful to behold ..."

5. The Orkneys and Shetland: Their Past and Present State by John R. Tudor (1883)
"When the church was planned in 1855 a couple of ambries still remained, ... One, if not both of these ambries, has within the last few years been removed to ..."

6. Recollections of Royalty: From the Death of William Rufus, in 1100, to that by Charles C[hadwicke] Jones (1828)
"... with ambries ,J ij ... J ambries were a kind of recess in cupboards for the deposit of valuable articles.—-Ibid. ..."

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