ambon
noun
ambo.
ambones
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pluralof ambon.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 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
