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Definition of Ambry
1. n. In churches, a kind of closet, niche, cupboard, or locker for utensils, vestments, etc.
Definition of Ambry
1. Noun. (obsolete) A storehouse. ¹
2. Noun. (context: now historical) A pantry, or place to store food. ¹
3. Noun. (architecture) A cupboard or storage area in a church; an armarium. ¹
4. Noun. (context: now historical) An ecclesiastical library or archive. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ambry
1. a recess in a church wall for sacred vessels [n -BRIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ambry
Literary usage of Ambry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"(2) The almonry was sometimes so called, the alms being kept in an ambry, ...
now corruptly the ambry, for that the ulms of the Abbey were there distributed ..."
2. The Ecclesiologist by Ecclesiological Society (1848)
"In preparation for the mass, the ambry is unlocked by the principal or the ...
who then first of all spreads a cloth over the whole of the top of the ambry, ..."
3. Church and Chapel Architecture: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Andrew Trimen (1849)
"THE INTERNAL ARRANGEMENT OF CHURCHES. The
Porch—Stoup—Font—Baptisteries—Altar—Sedilia—Piscina— Credence Table—Locker—ambry— ..."
4. The Calendar of the Anglican Church Illustrated: With Brief Accounts of the by Church of England (1851)
"The upper part of the ambry from Poulis represents the Annunciation, beneath
which is the Saviour with the cruciform nimbus and orb ; on His right hand is ..."
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