gamboge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæmˈbuːʒ/
ipa: /-ˈbəʊʒ/
ipa: /ɡæmˈbuʒ/
ipa: /-ˈboʊʒ/
rhymes: -uːʒ
Etymology: From New Latin gambogium, cambogium (“resin from trees used to make yellow dye”), from New Latin Gambogia, Cambogia (“Cambodia”). The Latin word was first attested in English as a colour in 1634. Doublet of Cambodia and Kampuchea.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1835 January, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “Passage in the Life of Mr. Watkins Tottle. Chapter the Second.”, in The Monthly Magazine, or British Register of Literature, Sciences, and the Belles-lettres, volume I (New Series), number 1, London: Published by James Cochrane and Co., […], →OCLC, page 121:
text: Beg your pardon, Sir, but this here officer o' yourn in the gambooge tops, 'ull never earn a decent livin' as a master o' the ceremonies any vere.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “Showing, among a Variety of Pleasant Matters, how Majestic and Impartial Mr. Nupkins was; and how Mr. Weller Returned Mr. Job Trotter’s Shuttlecock, as Heavily as It Came. With Another Matter, which will be Found in Its Place.”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC, page 256:
text: [Analcis fragariae] Larva, (Fig. 14 a)—White with back arched Lamellicorn-fashion. Head gamboges yellow, glabrous, with some faint transverse striations above mouth;[…]
ref: [1881 March 24, Charles V[alentine] Riley, “Descriptions of New Species and Varieties”, in General Index and Supplement to the Nine Reports on the Insects of Missouri (Department of the Interior, United States Entomological Commission Bulletin; no. 6), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 72:
text: [W]e can see, about a hundred yards behind, the dilapidated house: old, still yellowish—"gambooge coloured," [Charles] Lamb called it—two-storeyed, with tall, rickety windows.
ref: 1884 January, Percy Fitzgerald, “Sentimental Journeys in London: Old Houses”, in Tinsleys’ Magazine, volume XXXIV, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], →OCLC, part the third, page 80:
text: Its gay gambooge-coloured flowers, enveloped in an elusive fragrance, are as charming as anything in the Suffructicosa section.
ref: 1922 December 2, [Francis] Kingdon Ward, “Mr. Kingdon Ward’s Seventh Expedition in Asia. No. III. To Lichiang.”, in The Gardeners’ Chronicle: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Horticulture and Allied Subjects, volume LXXI (Third Series), number 1875, London: 5 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, W.C.2, →OCLC, page 325, columns 2–3:
text: Restored to her original condition and painted in the former gamboge livery, Gladstone is now housed in the railway museum at York thus sharing with Como the status of a lasting monument to her famous designer.
ref: 1948 January and February, C. R. L. Coles, “The Grouping Era”, in Railway Magazine, page 20:
glosses: Of a deep yellow colour.