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Meanings of gamboge in English
Portuguese
amarelo limão Catalan
llimona Gum resin containing a deep saffron to mustard yellow vegetable pigment.
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Usage of gamboge in English
1
The middle trees have a thin wash of burnt sienna and gamboge.
2
Also the churned snow beneath their feet was as yellow as gamboge.
3
Honeysuckles.-Insideof the petals, white shaded with sap-green, or gamboge and bistre.
4
Your face looks a bright gamboge to me, and your outlines wobble.
5
Some colours are easily removed, but seventeenth-century gamboge is a perfect beast.
6
In water it exceeds gamboge in brightness, and compounded therewith improves its beauty.
7
Perhaps in dyeing, the lead and gamboge solutions might be worth a trial.
8
Put four ounces of the best gum gamboge into 32 ozs.
9
If the seeds are seen lay on gamboge, shaded with gall-stone.
10
Yellow ochre may be employed instead of gamboge, but is not so eligible.
11
His blood may be gamboge yellow with green spots, for all anybody knows.
12
The gamboge is the juice of the tree obtained by incisions in the bark.
13
Anemones.- Athinwash of gamboge shaded with bistre; or carmine and sap-green blended together.
14
The four roads point four yellow ways, saffron and gamboge ribbons to the gaze.
15
They were coated with earth, clay-clad in ochre and gamboge.
16
The bill is gamboge yellow, and the iris blackish olive.
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