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AMBRY

Volume 1 · 57 words · 1771 Edition

a place in which are deposited all utensils necessary for house-keeping. In the ancient abbeys and priories, there was an office under this denomination, wherein were laid up all charities for the poor.

AMBUBAJÆ, in Roman antiquity, were immodest women, who came from Syria to Rome, where they lived by prostitution, and by playing on the flute.