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gamboge
Part of Speech: noun
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1. A concrete juice, or gum resin, produced by several species of trees in Siam, Ceylon, and Malabar. It is brought in masses, or cylindrical rolls, from Cambodia, or Cambogia, -- whence its name. The best kind is of a dense, compact texture, and of a beatiful reddish yellow. Taking internally, it is a strong and harsh cathartic and emetic.
Examples of usage:
- But I felt that the line must be drawn at Gamboge. - "The Boss of Little Arcady", Harry Leon Wilson.
- " Nice people might say that once in a great while, on week- days, if they never said any other baddixes; but it's just as bad as any of them if you say all the others- especially that horrible one-" " Gamboge," he reminded me, brightly. - "The Boss of Little Arcady", Harry Leon Wilson.
- The unripe fruit is dipped in boiling water to preserve its gamboge colour, strung upon a thick thread and hung out in the air to dry. - "Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah", Sir Richard Francis Burton.