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

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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

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Example Sentences

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aumbry aumbries

It is generally supposed that these crypts were used as Mortuary Chapels and the eastern one has in fact a piscina and aumbry, showing that there was once an altar.

From The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains by Frederick W. Woodhouse

There is also a square aumbry on each pier.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See by Joseph E. Bygate

It contains a carved cup-shaped font, a beautiful Dec. priest's doorway, and an elaborately sculptured aumbry and piscina.

From Somerset by G. W. Wade

In the third bay is a holy water stoop, and in the fifth a large aumbry or recess, entered by a door; in this used to be kept the bier and lights used at funerals.

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

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

On the west side are several large aumbries, in which, no doubt, the relics were kept.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See by A. B. Clifton

John Stow, whose gatherings form part of the Harleian collection, saved some books which once reposed in claustral aumbries, mainly owing to the protection and help of Archbishop Parker.

From Old English Libraries by Ernest Albert Savage

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

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

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