ambon
noun
ambo.
Amboina
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a variation of
Ambon.
Example Sentences
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Near Amboina is the world-famous Iron Knob, containing 100,000,000 tons of aboveground ore.
From Time Magazine Archive
At his pleasant summer palace of Tjipanas, President Sukarno invited Djakarta's diplomatic corps to a Saturday party, and dancers were flown all the way from Amboina Island for the occasion.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ahead of her lie Singapore, the stout secondary bases at Surabaya, Darwin and Amboina.
From Time Magazine Archive
In three months on the island of Amboina he baptized 1,200.
From Time Magazine Archive
They're called "storm stones" in Lausitz; "sky arrows" in Slavonia; "thunder axes" in England and Scotland; "lightning stones" in Spain and Portugal; "sky axes" in Greece; "lightning flashes" in Brazil; "thunder teeth" in Amboina.
From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort
