gamboge
/gam-bohj, -boozh/US // gæmˈboʊdʒ, -ˈbuʒ //UK // (ɡæmˈbəʊdʒ, -ˈbuːʒ) //
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Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : Also cambogia. a gum resin from various Asian trees of the genus Garcinia, especially G. hanburyi, used as a yellow pigment and as a cathartic.
- : yellow or yellow-orange.
Examples
In colored ones, if yellow, use gamboge after the pipe-clay, and for other colors match it in dry paint.
Gamboge is of a gum-resinous nature and clear yellow colour.
Perhaps in dyeing, the lead and gamboge solutions might be worth a trial.
He gave enormous doses of powerful drugs—sixty grains of gamboge, and from two to three ounces of saltpeter in a single day.
The golden throat under a crimson-purple tube is lined with bright crimson; the characteristic ‘eyes’ gamboge, fading to white.
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