ambry

Example Sentences

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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

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

With that he restored the goblet to the secret shelf, put back the drawer, and shut the ambry door.

From Foes by Johnston, Mary

A large ambry adjoins the door in the outer wall.

From Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys by Butler, Dugald

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)