ambon
noun
ambo.
ambon
1 American
[am-bon]
/ ˈæm bɒn /
noun
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 Allies, Thomas W.
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 Kerr, Robert
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 Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
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
The woods of Ambon teem with the abundant bird-life peculiar to the Moluccas.
From Through the Malay Archipelago by Richings, Emily
The splendid ambones in the nave, inlaid with serpentine and porphyry, are of the twelfth century.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
Instead of ambones there are two plain marble reading-desks for the epistle and gospel.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
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 Collins, William Wiehe
The Georgian pulpit was removed, and a symmetrical arrangement of two was substituted, recalling the Gospel and Epistle ambones of an ancient Italian church, but lacking their beauty.
From Memorials of Old London Volume I by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
Pavement, ambones, choir, and canopy are of the twelfth century.
From Rome by Malleson, Hope
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