gamboge

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any of several species of trees of the genus Garcinia found in South and Southeastern Asia, especially Garcinia xanthochymus.
2. isim The resin of the gamboge tree; a preparation of the resin used as a pigment or for medicinal purposes.

   “Chestnut wood, dyed with saffron, or old chestnut, dyed with gambooge, imitates dark mahogany.”

3. isim A deep yellow colour.

   “I have always heard, and red, that Nature is one of the chief beauties of poetry; and lo! behold an example!—for I merely turned into rhyme the pitiful ravings of two love-lorn maids, most tenderly sensible to the charms of a pair of black moustachios relieved with deep gamboges.”

4. sıfat Of a deep yellow colour.

   “The cab stopped, and out jumped a man in a coarse Petersham great coat, whitey-brown neckerchief, faded black suit, gambooge-coloured top-boots, and one of those large crowned hats, formerly seldom met with, but now very generally patronised by gentlemen and costermongers.”