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Definition of Ambries
1. ambry [n] - See also: ambry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ambries
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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