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Tavernier: the Gem Trade in India, circa 1675
The more amber a nobleman was able to waste this way, the greater his reputation for grandeur became. Ambergris ... was unaware that ambergris came from ... ambergris. Thus the old belief that ambergris was full of the beaks of birds. An old word for ambergris was ambra, hence it was confused with amber by translators; the best place to find ambergris ...
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Ambergris Pathfinder: Summary
Ambergris from Sea Bird Droppings In the West, true amber (yellow amber or Prussian amber, the succinum of the Romans and the [elektron] of the Greeks) and ambergris were thought ... cast up on seashores. To the earliest Western chroniclers, ambergris was variously thought to come from the same bituminous sea founts as amber, from the sperm of fishes or whales, from the ...
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Ambergris Pathfinder: Dictionaries
Reported variants are: ambar ambergrease ambergriese ambregris ambargrece ambergrece ambergrise grease of amber ambargris ambergreece ambra gris-amber amber ambergreese ambragresia imbergres Also related are: Amber - Originally - ambergris, also, to perfume with ambergris. Amber ...
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