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ambo

[am-boh] / ˈæm boʊ /
NOUN
lectern
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There is also an entirely new "ambo" team that has been created to care for the patients who can't even get into the corridors.

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2023

Claire Fraser is the senior sister heading the day's "ambo" team.

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2023

That these fragments were part of an ambo on three columns, to which reference has been found, is proved by the inscription from the Ash Wednesday service which runs along it, "Memento te homine," &c.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)

The marble pulpit, or Gospel ambo, inlaid with mosaics, was built, according to a Latin inscription which it bears, in the year 1272, at the cost of Niccolo Rufolo, a descendant of the grand admiral.

From The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration Vol 1, No. 9 1895 by Various

The ambo in the right aisle, made up of columns and carved slabs of the sixth century, is due to him, as are the chapels to right and left of the nave.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)




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