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ambo
[ am-boh ]
noun
- (in an early Christian church) a raised desk, or either of two such desks, from which the Gospels or Epistles were read or chanted.
ambo
1/ ˈæmbəʊ /
noun
- an ambulance driver
- an ambulance
ambo
2/ ˈæmbəʊ /
noun
- either of two raised pulpits from which the gospels and epistles were read in early Christian churches
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Origin of ambo1
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Example Sentences
Ambo, he isn't really certain yet that I didn't go crazy that night and kill your wife.
Love, Ambo, human love, as I learned of it there at home—and I saw and heard much too much of it—frightened and sickened me.
That's what the references to Jimmy mean, Ambo, in those pages I scribbled in my trance; and that's all they mean.
But they didn't die there, Ambo; they lived there, a hideous secret life, lying in wait to betray me.
There must be some fatal connection, Ambo, between being sick and being sentimental.
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