Gambooge

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Archaic form of gamboge. alt-of, archaic

    "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
    Archaic form of gamboge. alt-of, archaic, 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."

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