different between bookcase vs ambry

English

Etymology

book +? case

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?k?ke?s/, [?b??k?ke?s]

Noun

bookcase (plural bookcases)

1. A piece of furniture for the storage and display of books.

Translations

See also

• bookshelf

Anagrams

• case book, case-book, casebook

English

Alternative forms

• almery, aumbrie, aumbry, ambery

Etymology

From Middle English almerie, from Anglo-Norman almarie, aumer, etc., from Old French almarie, from Latin arm?rium. Doublet of armarium and armoire.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???m.b?i/

Noun

ambry (plural ambries)

1. (now historical, rare) A bookcase; a library or archive. [from 13^thc.]
2. (obsolete) A storehouse, especially a niche or recess in a wall used for storage.
3. (now rare) A pantry, or place to store food. [from 14^thc.]
4. (architecture) A cupboard or storage area in a church to hold books, communion vessels, vestments, etc.; an armarium. [from 16^thc.]
   • 1983, Dennis G. Michno, A Priest's Handbook, Morehouse 1998, p.75:

     Nothing else should be kept in the tabernacle or aumbry where the Sacrament is reserved, but a small container of water and a cloth may be kept on the shelf for cleansing one's fingers.

   • 2003, Wm. B. Eerdmans, translating Erwin Fahlbusch et al., The Encylopedia of Christianity, vol.III, p.321:

     Portions of the consecrated bread from the Eucharist were stored or reserved in an ambry or tabernacle to be taken to the sick.

Synonyms

• (armarium): armarium
• (cupboard): cupboard, pantry

Anagrams

• Byram, Mabry, barmy