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See also: amber-greece and amber greece
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]ambergreece (uncountable)
- Obsolete spelling of ambergris.
- 1591, Antonie Knivet, “The admirable aduentures and ſtrange fortunes of Maſter Antonie Knivet” (chapter VII), in Samuel Purchas, compiler, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes, volume 4, London: H. Fetherston, published 1625, 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 […]