ambry
Example Sentences
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He opened a door of the ambry, pulled out a drawer, and, pressing some spring, revealed a narrow, secret shelf.
From Foes by Mary Johnston
A large ambry adjoins the door in the outer wall.
From Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys by Dugald Butler
At the east end of the church, on the gospel side of the site of the high altar, there is a recess in the wall, forming an ambry of elegant form.
From Chronicles of Strathearn by W. B. Macdougall
In the N. aisle is an ambry, and in the S. aisle a sedile and two piscinæ, and on the N. side another ambry.
From Hertfordshire by E. H. (Edmund Hort) New
There is a double Early English piscina in the south wall, and an ambry in the north.
From Notes and Queries, Number 71, March 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
