ambry

Example Sentences

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The building is cruciform, of flint, dressed with Totternhoe and Caen stone, and has a square ambry, a very old piscina, and a double sedilia; the latter is E.E.

From Hertfordshire by New, E. H. (Edmund Hort)

A large ambry adjoins the door in the outer wall.

From Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys by Butler, Dugald

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

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

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