ambry

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She knew him as certainly as if she had seen him standing before her again, the little lad of past years, or the infant cradled in the ambry of the ruined chancel.

From A Dozen Ways Of Love by Dougall, Lily

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

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

In the N. aisle is an ambry, and in the S. aisle a sedile and two piscinæ, and on the N. side another ambry.

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