ambon
noun
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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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
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
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
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
Furtado gaf 23 Maart 1603 bevel de troepen in te schepen2, slechtte het fort op Makjan weer en keerde naar Ambon en kort daarop naar Malakka terug.
Pavement, ambones, choir, and canopy are of the twelfth century.
From Rome by Hope Malleson
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 church has an enclosed choir, with two ambones or reading-desks in it, surrounding the altar, as was the custom in the older Christian churches.
From Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Hugh Macmillan
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
The choir screens, work of the Renaissance, are very lovely, while above them are the ambones, from which on a Festa the Epistle and Gospel are sung.
From Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition by Edward Hutton
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