| 释义 |
‖ calamˈbour
In 7 callembour.
One of the Fr. forms of prec. [See Littré.]
Said in modern English Dictionaries to be ‘A species of Agallochum or aloes-wood, less fragrant than calambac, used by cabinet-makers’: but this appears to be merely an error copied from dictionary to dictionary.
1685Lond. Gaz. No. 2011/8 A little Callembour Box. 1847Craig, Calambac, Aloes-wood. Calambour, the name given to a species of aloes-wood. [In Webster, Ogilvie, Cassell.] |