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ambo

[am-boh] / ˈæm boʊ /
NOUN
lectern
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Claire Fraser is the senior sister heading the day's "ambo" team.

From BBC Jan. 7, 2023

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

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 F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson

The seat of the emperor was on the left side of the soleas, immediately below the seats of the priests, close to the ambo, and opposite to the throne of the patriarch.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur

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 F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson

I awoke up surrounded by police and ambos, concerned flatmates.

From The Guardian Mar. 19, 2019

"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 Michael Scott

Its two ambos stand on each side of the raised portion of the floor which corresponds to the choir in the Basilica of Honorius.

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

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

Lastly, the two ambos, or pulpits, survive in two senses.

From Architecture Classic and Early Christian by T. Roger (Thomas Roger) Smith




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