ambo

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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

At each side is an ambo of stone supported on four columns, but with an octagonal body above, arcaded, with shafts at the angles.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)

As early as the fourth century the Council of Laodicea had decreed that “besides the appointed singers, who mount the ambo, and sing from the book, others shall not sing in the church.”

From The Story of Our Hymns by Ryden, Ernest Edwin

The names thus written were read from 309 the ambo, in which the diptych was kept.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various