ambon
noun
ambo.
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- a variation of ambo.
ambon
1 American
[am-bon]
/ ˈæm bɒn /
noun
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ambones
plural
Ambon
2
American
[ahm-bawn]
/ ˈɑm bɔn /
Amboina
noun
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an island in the central Moluccas, in easterb Indonesia. 314 sq. mi. (813 sq. km).
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a seaport on this island.
Ambon
British
/ ˈɑːmbɔːn /
noun
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Also: Amboina. an island in Indonesia, in the Moluccas. Capital: Amboina. Area: 1000 sq km (386 sq miles)
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Also: Amboina. a port in the Moluccas, the capital of Ambon (Amboina) island
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These are respectively white, green, yellow, and a colour between green and yellow; but the white water, or varna ambon, is the best.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr
The nave had probably an ambon, or reading-desk, and was mainly used by the clergy, the aisles being for the use of the men and women separately.
From English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
There the emperor presented himself at the ambon holding by the hand the monk Constantine, bishop of Sylæum, and cried with a loud voice, “Many years to the ecumenical patriarch Constantine.”
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Thomas W. Allies
Rumphius identified the fruit's tough outer skin as the source of its pungency, noting how the people of Indonesia's Ambon Island had a habit of disposing of the noxious rinds on the shoreline.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2024
The exception was Ambon Island, which the Dutch set aside to grow cloves.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Even on Indonesia's Ambon Island, where statistics show no-one has died from Covid-19, one family told us how the circumstances created by the virus cost their three-year-old son his life.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2020
A local disaster official said the main hospital in Ambon was damaged.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2019
The Portuguese who colonised Ambon, in the zenith of their maritime power, were of vigorous stock, and the mental heritage of the island was permanently enriched by elements derived from a foreign source.
From Through the Malay Archipelago by Emily Richings
The most interesting things, if we except the tombs that are in the building, are the two ambones, or pulpits.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by William Wiehe Collins
From these walls projected ambones or pulpits with desks, also of marble, ascended by steps.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
These are mainly altars and baldacchini, choir-screens, paschal candlesticks, ambones, tombs and the like, all enriched with sculpture and glass mosaic of great brilliance and decorative effect.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
The splendid ambones in the nave, inlaid with serpentine and porphyry, are of the twelfth century.
From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare
At the end of the nave, on either side, are two ambones, marking the position of the choir before it was extended to its present site in the sixteenth century.
From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare
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