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ambo

noun as in lectern

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noun as in reading desk

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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.

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

For the chapel — where the priests take turns leading Friday Mass for themselves and any employees who care to attend — Marvel designed a walnut altar and ambo and a blackened-steel holy water font.

Cardinal Ravasi said that he had only made two requests of the architects, that the chapels contain two central liturgical elements: the ambo, known also as a pulpit or lectern, and the altar.

“Would you rather wait for the outcome of the follow up letter or call the ambo ASAP?” he wrote, using the shorthand for “ambassador.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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