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Gamboge

//ɡæmˈbuːʒ// adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a deep yellow colour. not-comparable

    "The cab stopped, and out jumped a man in a coarse Petersham great coat, whitey-brown neckerchief, faded black suit, gambooge-coloured top-boots, and one of those large crowned hats, formerly seldom met with, but now very generally patronised by gentlemen and costermongers."

Noun
  1. 1
    Any of several species of trees of the genus Garcinia found in South and Southeastern Asia, especially Garcinia xanthochymus. countable, uncountable

    "Clusiaceæ, or Guttiferæ, a natural order of trees or shrubs belonging to the Dicotyledons (division Thalamifloræ), natives of the humid tropics of S. America. [...] Most of the plants have acrid properties, and yield a yellow resin. Among the chief and common plants of the order are Gambooge (q.v.), Mangosteen fruit (Garcinia Mangostana), [...]"

  2. 2
    a strong yellow color wordnet
  3. 3
    The resin of the gamboge tree; a preparation of the resin used as a pigment or for medicinal purposes. countable, uncountable

    "Gamboge is one of the firſt yellows, which may be made to produce five or six ſorts of Green with verdegreaſe, according as the gambooge is in the greater or leſſer proportion; if it abounds, it will make a tolerable oak green, and being mixt with a greater quantity of verdegreaſe, it will make a fine graſs Green."

  4. 4
    a gum resin used as a yellow pigment and a purgative wordnet
  5. 5
    A deep yellow colour. countable, uncountable

    "I have always heard, and red, that Nature is one of the chief beauties of poetry; and lo! behold an example!—for I merely turned into rhyme the pitiful ravings of two love-lorn maids, most tenderly sensible to the charms of a pair of black moustachios relieved with deep gamboges."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From New Latin gambogium, cambogium (“resin from trees used to make yellow dye”), from New Latin Gambogia, Cambogia (“Cambodia”). The Latin word was first attested in English as a colour in 1634. Doublet of Cambodia and Kampuchea.

Etymology 2

From New Latin gambogium, cambogium (“resin from trees used to make yellow dye”), from New Latin Gambogia, Cambogia (“Cambodia”). The Latin word was first attested in English as a colour in 1634. Doublet of Cambodia and Kampuchea.

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