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† gamahe, gamaieu Obs.
See also camaieu.
[a. OF. gamahe, gamahieu (F. camaieu) = med.L. gamahei pl., Sp. gamaeo, MHG. gamahee, gamahoe cameo.]
A cameo; also, a stone bearing natural markings resembling pictorial or ornamental figures, formerly valued as a talisman.
1638Junius Paint. Ancients 95 Lovers of..rarities use to call such a casuall painting of Nature, as commeth neere unto Art by the name Gamahè. 1656Blount Glossogr., Gamahez (Arab.), as Talismans are Images, or Figures made by art, under certain Constellations; so Gamahez are such figures found so wrought by nature, held to be of greater vertue, being therefore worn by some persons. 1664Evelyn Sylva (1776) 156 This wood [Ash] is nothing inferior to that of the Maple..being altogether as exquisitely diapered and waved like the Gamahes of Achates. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 856 Such beings as have fancy in them, commonly called animals—which are but some of sportful or wanton natures, more trimly artificial and finer gamaieus, or pretty toys. |