aumbry

American  

[am-bree] / ˈæm bri /

Obsolete, almery or ambry

noun

• aumbries
  plural

1. Also called armarium.  Ecclesiastical. a recess in the wall of a church or a cupboard in the sacristy where sacred vessels, books, vestments, etc., are kept.

2. Chiefly British Dialect. a storeroom, closet, or pantry.

3. Obsolete. any of various types of closet or cupboard with doors and shelves.

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aumbry British  

/ ˈɔːmbrɪ /

noun

1. a variant of ambry

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• aumbries
  plural

Etymology

Origin of aumbry

First recorded in 1200–1250; Middle English aumry, almerie, almarie, from Old French aumaire, almarie, from Medieval Latin almārium, dissimilated variant of armārium, from Latin; see armarium

Example Sentences

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aumbry aumbries

Cromwell stepped to an aumbry, where there were a glass of wine, a manchet of bread, and a little salt.

From The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court by Ford Madox Ford

The space in the north wall shows where the aumbry used to be.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See by Hubert C. (Hubert Christian) Corlette

Another thing sometimes to be seen is the ambery, or aumbry, a small cupboard let into the chancel wall, in which were kept the communion vessels, the chalice, paten, etc.

From Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them by Sidney Heath

In the north wall there is a square aumbry, and in the south wall a large piscina, with trefoil head and projecting basin.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric by Cecil Walter Charles Hallett

In the south wall a large aumbry or cupboard, in the thickness of the walls, may be seen; in this possibly the canons kept the books that they had brought from the library for study.

From Bell's Cathedrals: Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings by Rev. Thomas Perkins

Under the north transept is an early Norman apsidal crypt with aumbries in the walls.

From Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch by E. W. Haslehust

There are within it two piscinae and two aumbries at different levels, indicating, no doubt, an alteration of level in the altar itself during the period that this chantry was in use.

From Bell's Cathedrals: A Short Account of Romsey Abbey A Description of the Fabric and Notes on the History of the Convent of Ss. Mary & Ethelfleda by Rev. Thomas Perkins

Two recesses for aumbries are still to be seen in the cloister at Worcester: it is recorded that one book, the Speculum Spiritualium, was to be delivered "to ye cloyster awmery."

From Old English Libraries by Ernest Albert Savage

In the third chamber was brought together the wealth of all the world, and in that place also were set the aumbries of Asenath.

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Eugene Mason

His notes are profusely decorated with a rich array of rood screens, finial crockets, lavatories, aumbries, lecterns, lych sheds, albs, stoups, sedilia, credence tables, pixes, hagioscopes, baudekyns, and squenches.

From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton