ambery
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a word derived from
amber.
ambernouna pale yellow, sometimes reddish or brownish, fossil resin of vegetable origin, translucent, brittle, and capable of gaining a negative electrical charge by friction and of being an excellent insulator: used for making jewelry and other ornamental articles.
Example Sentences
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Those parma violets, I smelt, fabrics, an ambery perfume, and something rotting.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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Looking southwards, some holland screens barred half of the nave, which showed ambery in the sunlight and was speckled at both ends by the dazzling blue and crimson of stained-glass windows.
From His Masterpiece by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
Another thing sometimes to be seen is the ambery, or aumbry, a small cupboard let into the chancel wall, in which were kept the communion vessels, the chalice, paten, etc.
From Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them by Sidney Heath
He saw another pair of eyes gazing out at him They were ambery eyes, as he called them— just what was to be expected from a star.
From A Prisoner in Fairyland by Algernon Blackwood