Meaning of gambooge | Babel Free

Definitions

Archaic form of gamboge.

alt-of, archaic, uncountable

Examples

“Gamboge is one of the firſt yellows, which may be made to produce five or six ſorts of Green with verdegreaſe, according as the gambooge is in the greater or leſſer proportion; if it abounds, it will make a tolerable oak green, and being mixt with a greater quantity of verdegreaſe, it will make a fine graſs Green.”

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