ambry
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ambry
- /ˈæm.bɹi/ UK
Where it comes from
From Middle English almerie, from Anglo-Norman almarie, aumer, etc., from Old French almarie, from Latin armārium. Doublet of armarium, armoire, and almirah.
noun ambries · almery · aumbrie · aumbry · ambery
- A bookcase; a library or archive. Whanne Bors had told hym of the aduentures of the Sancgreal suche as had befalle hym / and his thre felawes that was launcelot / Percyual / Galahad / & hym self There Launcelot told the aduentures of the Sancgreal / that he had sene / Alle this was made in grete bookes / and put vp in almeryes at Sa
- A storehouse, especially a niche or recess in a wall used for storage. In the closets or almeries on each side of the Frater-house door in the Cloisters, Towels were kept white and clean to dry their Hands upon.
- A pantry, or place to store food. Used by a wholesaler or retailer as a wine cabinet, the ambry cupboard suited the needs of a neighborhood inn or small-scale private kitchen.
- A cupboard or storage area in a church to hold books, communion vessels, vestments, etc. (usually in the sacristy); an armarium. At the end of the bench adjoining to the Frater-house door, was a fine almery fixed to the wall, and another on the other side of the door[…].
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