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ambergreece

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ambergreece (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete spelling of ambergris.
    • 1625, [Samuel] Purchas, chapter 7, in Purchas His Pilgrimes. [], 4th part, London: [] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, [], →OCLC, 6th book, § 3, page 1224:
      We found great ſtore of Ambergreece, which the Indians call Pirapoun Arepoty, here fortune was ſomewhat fauourable vnto me, for I got aboue fiue hundred Crownes in this iourney.
    • 1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique:
      [] we were cloſe by the Peninſule Mozambique (part of Quiloa) inhabited by Negroes; abundant in Gold, Silver, and Ambergreece []