Definitions for aumbries

aumbries aum·bry

Spelling: [am-bree]
IPA: /ˈæm bri/

Aumbries is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 470 anagrams from letters in aumbries (abeimrsu).

Definitions for aumbries

noun

  1. ambry.
  2. Also called armarium. Ecclesiastical. a recess in the wall of a church or a cupboard in the sacristy where sacred vessels, books, vestments, etc., are kept.
  3. Chiefly British Dialect. a storeroom, closet, or pantry.
  4. Obsolete. any of various types of closet or cupboard with doors and shelves.

Origin of aumbries

1200-1250; Middle English aumry, almerie, almarie Old French aumaire, almarie Medieval Latin almārium, dissimilated variant of armārium armarium

Examples for aumbries

Note the old font which was evidently at one time coloured; also the aumbry, piscina and sedile.

She opened swiftly an aumbry in which there stood a tankard of milk.

The sedilia are Perpendicular, and an Early English piscina and aumbry are observable behind the altar.

The aumbry in the north wall was the receptacle in which S. Richard's head was preserved in a case of silver.

In the next chapel, that of the Four Virgins, there is nothing to show where the aumbry or the piscina was.

In each of these the old piscina and aumbry remain near where the altar had been placed.

The sedilia in the chancel and the aumbry in the north transept should be seen.

The aumbry in the south wall has a semicircular arch, and has been double.

This monument partly hides an ancient niche or aumbry, where the wafer was probably kept in pre-Reformation times.

Note the piscina and aumbry; the old font; the stoup in the S. porch.

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