ambry
Britishnoun
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a recessed cupboard in the wall of a church near the altar, used to store sacred vessels, etc
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obsolete a small cupboard or other storage space
Etymology
Origin of ambry
C14: from Old French almarie, from Medieval Latin almārium, from Latin armārium chest for storage, from arma arms
Example Sentences
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Cicely Elliott looked around her in the darkening room: beside the ambry there hung a brush of feathers such as they used for the dusting of their indoor clothes.
From The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court by Ford Madox Ford
The building is cruciform, of flint, dressed with Totternhoe and Caen stone, and has a square ambry, a very old piscina, and a double sedilia; the latter is E.E.
From Hertfordshire by E. H. (Edmund Hort) New
It is so difficult to uncloister you, that I regret not seeing you when you are out of your own ambry.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole
Coming to a fine carved ambry, he hesitated, then stood still.
From Foes by Mary Johnston
She knew him as certainly as if she had seen him standing before her again, the little lad of past years, or the infant cradled in the ambry of the ruined chancel.
From A Dozen Ways Of Love by Lily Dougall
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