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Definition of Ambulatories
1. ambulatory [n] - See also: ambulatory
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ambulatories
Literary usage of Ambulatories
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lombard Architecture by Arthur Kingsley Porter (1917)
"APPENDIX I. ambulatories The peculiar dispositions of the choirs of S. Stefano of
Verona and of the cathedral of Ivrea raise the much discussed question ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1907)
"area is lined by ambulatories; the western side is bounded by the wall of the
... Behind the ambulatories, and sheltered by them, lies a line of chambers, ..."
3. Mediaeval Church Vaulting by Clarence Ward (1915)
"EARLY ambulatories It is not the province of this essay to enter into a discussion
of the origin of the ambulatory and its introduction into the church ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The word "cloister,"- though now restricted to the four-sided enclosure, surrounded
with covered ambulatories, usually attached to conventual and ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Vitruvius compares these (VI, v or iii) with the Egyptian halls because the latter
had also covered ambulatories around a middle space supported by columns ..."
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