OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 29917

ambo

/ˈæm.bəʊ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ambón
A raised platform in an early Christian church, as well as in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches.
the Emperor arrived and instead of moving directly to his seat climbed to the top level of the ambo, the great three-decker pulpit of polychrome marble.
‘It will get better somehow,’ he thought, and went to the ambo. On going up the steps and turning to the right he saw the priest.
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