ambry

Example Sentences

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Below the hall is seen a small ambry or cupboard in the wall.

From The Hawarden Visitors' Hand-Book Revised Edition, 1890 by Gladstone, William Henry

A large ambry adjoins the door in the outer wall.

From Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys by Butler, Dugald

Cicely Elliott looked around her in the darkening room: beside the ambry there hung a brush of feathers such as they used for the dusting of their indoor clothes.

From The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court by Ford, Ford Madox

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 Bell, George

It is so difficult to uncloister you, that I regret not seeing you when you are out of your own ambry.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace