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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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... filled, not with jellies and marmalades and preserves, and boxes of lemons and preserved ginger and drums of figs, and all sorts of original packages of all sorts of things toothsome and satisfying to the palate—but even her scammony and gamboge, and aloes and Epsom salts, and other dire weapons, only wielded by the medical ...
— Continental Monthly , Vol IV, Issue VI, December 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy. • Various


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


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