ambry

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

From Foes by Johnston, Mary

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)

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

At the east end of the church, on the gospel side of the site of the high altar, there is a recess in the wall, forming an ambry of elegant form.

From Chronicles of Strathearn by Macdougall, W. B.

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