Ambo
(in an early Christian church) a raised desk, or either of two such desks, from which the Gospels or Epistles were read or chanted.
Historical Examples
I’ll go if you can let me, because—oh, I’ve got to say it, ambo!
The Book of Susan Lee Wilson Dodd
The ambo had two ascents—one from the east, and the other from the west.
Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) Various
ambo told the parents of the young woman that he would restore her to life if they would pay him a reasonable sum of money.
Filipino Popular Tales Dean S. Fansler
If you can’t let me have another room, ambo—I’ll have to go.
The Book of Susan Lee Wilson Dodd
Haven’t I always told you and ambo that Jimmy would be like this?
The Book of Susan Lee Wilson Dodd
Tilly wasn’t a bit like Pearl, ambo; and Sonia isn’t either!
The Book of Susan Lee Wilson Dodd
The Mohammedan conquest of course swept away the ornaments of the interior—the ambo, the iconostasis and the holy table.
Lippincott’s Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 33, November 1877 Various
As for ambo—ambo says nothing, bless him—but I think he wants and needs you most of all.
The Book of Susan Lee Wilson Dodd
ambo, a fitting of early Christian churches, very similar to a pulpit.
Architecture Thomas Roger Smith
Oh, I knew at once what you meant, ambo, when you called her a dedicated priestess!
The Book of Susan Lee Wilson Dodd
noun (pl) ambos, ambones (æmˈbəʊniːz)
either of two raised pulpits from which the gospels and epistles were read in early Christian churches
noun (Austral, informal) (pl) ambos
an ambulance driver
an ambulance
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