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Meanings of gambogia in English
Gum resin containing a deep saffron to mustard yellow vegetable pigment.
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Examples for "gamboge"
Examples for "gamboge"
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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.
Usage of gambogia in English
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GAMBOGE.-Thisresinous juice, which is a most important article of commerce, is furnished by some of the plants of Gambogia, natives principally of South America.