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Gamboge

noun
(Written also camboge)
1.
A gum resin used as a yellow pigment and a purgative.
2.
A strong yellow color.  Synonyms: lemon, lemon yellow, maize.



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"Gamboge" Quotes from Famous Books



... have been discovered; but the island is chiefly noted for its petroleum wells, the oil derived from which is of excellent quality, and is extensively used in the composition of paint, as it preserves wood from the ravages of insects. Timber is not abundant, but the gamboge tree and the wood-oil tree are found of a good size. Tobacco, cotton, sugar-cane, hemp and indigo are grown, and the staple article is rice, which is of superior quality, and the chief article of export. The inhabitants of the island are mainly ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 - "Chtelet" to "Chicago" • Various


Words linked to "Gamboge" :   yellow, gum resin, yellowness


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