ambergreece

See also: amber-greece and amber greece

English

Noun

ambergreece (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete spelling of ambergris.
    • 1591, Anthony Knivet, “The admirable aduentures and ſtrange fortunes of Maſter Antonie Knivet, which went with Maſter Thomas Candish in his ſecond voyage to the South Sea”, in [Samuel] Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 4th part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], published 1625, →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 […]
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