Ambry

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  • noun. A pantry.
  • noun. A niche or cabinet, usually near the altar of a church, for keeping holy oil or other sacramental materials.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A place for keeping things; a storehouse, storeroom, closet, pantry, cupboard, press, safe, locker, chest. Specifically
  • noun. A place for keeping victuals; a pantry, cupboard, or meat-safe.
  • noun. Hir. Will not any fool take me for a wise man now, seeing me draw out of the pit of my treasury this little god with his belly full of gold?
  • noun. In ancient churches, a niche or recess, fitted with a door, in the wall near the altar, in which the sacred utensils were deposited.
  • noun. A place for keeping books; a library.
  • noun. Same as almonry.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. In churches, a kind of closet, niche, cupboard, or locker for utensils, vestments, etc.
  • noun. A store closet, as a pantry, cupboard, etc.
  • noun. Almonry.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A storehouse. (Especially a niche or recess in a wall used for storage.)
  • Word Usage
    "But before I went, I looked around, and espied an ambry fashioned in the wall of the bed-lane, and the door was half open; and the said ambry was wrought of the daintiest, all of gold and pearl and gems; and I said to myself: Herein is some treasure, and this is a tide of war."
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