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gamboge

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"Yellow resin pigment"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ɡæmˈbuːʒ/Part of speech nounSorted abeggmoStarts with GEnds with E1 clues
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Definitions

  1. Strong yellow pigment.

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • Chestnut wood, dyed with saffron, or old chestnut, dyed with gambooge, imitates dark mahogany.
  • Of gum resins, the emulsive series including gamboges of all varieties will follow the gums in natural order in consequence of the facility with which they mix and form an emulsion with water.
  • My attention was fixed for the moment on two fair Hellenes; then on an elderly female with black head-dress fringed with gambooge, and a smart lassie in a hat, with nez retroussé and sprightly eyes.

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