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  1. noun One of the two raised stands in early Christian churches from which parts of the service were chanted or read.

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  • The player bets that a number named by him shall be one of these ( semplice estratto ); or that it shall be the first drawn ( estratto determinato ); or that two numbers named by him shall be two of the five drawn ( ambo ); or that three so named shall be drawn ( terno ). —  What I Remember, Volume 2
  • Entertainment Weekly, comic icon Rick Moranis, someone most of us thought we'd never see on the big screen again, will be joining the rest of the original old-ambo driving crew for —  Moviehole
  • When an ambo is played for, the same two numbers may be played as single numbers, either al posto or senza posto_, and in such case one of the numbers alone may win. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860
  • I had many opportunities of communicating with the natives of Rumbo, and they have clearly a peculiar dialect, resembling exactly what you mention of substituting the final o for a, as in the word ambo for amba. —  The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
  • PROLOGVS PROLOGUE Tyndarus AND Philocrates ARE CHAINED, IN AN UNCOMFORTABLE POSITION, TO A PILLAR IN FRONT OF Hegio’s HOUSE Hos quos videtis stare his captives duos illi qui astant,[1] hi stant ambo, non sedent hoc vos mihi testes estis me verum loqui senex qui his habitat Hegio est huius pater These two prisoners you see standing here, well, both of those bystanders are men who are--standing, not sitting down. —  Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
 

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  1. Medieval Latin, from Greek ambōn, raised edge.

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  1. from Middle Latin ambo, from Greek ἂμβων,any slight elevation, a boss, stage, pulpit: see ambe.
 

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