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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chambers, Ephraim, ed. (1728). "Ambe". Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences . Vol. Alguazil–anagram (1st ed.). James and John Knapton, et al. p. 74.
