ambo
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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)
At each side is an ambo of stone supported on four columns, but with an octagonal body above, arcaded, with shafts at the angles.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)
For instance, if two baiocchi be staked on an ambo, the prize is one scudo; but if the same sum be staked on a terno, the prize is a hundred scudi.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 by Various
I awoke up surrounded by police and ambos, concerned flatmates.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2019
The pulpits and ambos chosen for the illustrations in this issue of The Brochures are mainly interesting for their wonderful mosaic decorations which are among the finest of their kind which have ever been executed.
From The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration Vol 1, No. 9 1895 by Various
The pavement as well as the work upon these two ambos is in the style of the Cosmati.
From The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration Vol 1, No. 9 1895 by Various
Lastly, the two ambos, or pulpits, survive in two senses.
From Architecture Classic and Early Christian by Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger)
"And—and"—here he hesitated, and his voice shook and trembled with the most intense and heart—crushing emotion—"y una mas cara que ambos?"
From Tom Cringle's Log by Scott, Michael