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amber greece

amber greece is the obsolete spelling of ambergris.

Meaning of ambergris

Noun

ambergris (usually uncountable, plural ambergrises)

  1. (usually) A solid, waxy, flammable substance of a dull gray to blackish color, formed within the intestines of the sperm whale and used in the production of perfumes.
    • Your onely way to make a good pomander, is this. Take an ownce of the pureſt garden mould, clenſed and ſteeped ſeauen daies in change of motherleſſe roſe water, then take the beſt Labdanum, Benioine, both Storaxes, amber greece, and Ciuet, and muſke, incorporate them together, and work them into...1607, [attributed to Thomas Tomkis], Lingva: Or The Combat of the Tongue, and the Five Senses for Superiority. A Pleasant Comœdie., London: Printed by G[eorge] Eld, for Simon Waterson, →OCLC, act IV...
    Synonyms:
    amber, grey amber

Questions about amber greece

What is amber greece the obsolete spelling of?
Amber greece is the obsolete spelling of ambergris.

Words near amber greece in the dictionary

  1. amber gambler
  2. amber gamblers
  3. amber greace
  4. amber grease
  5. amber grece
  6. amber greece
  7. amber grese
  8. amber grice
  9. amber griece
  10. amber griese
  11. amber gris

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