gambogianadj.n.
/ɡamˈbəʊ(d)ʒɪən/, /ɡamˈbəʊ(d)ʒ(ə)n/, /ɡamˈbuːʒɪən/, /ɡamˈbuːʒ(ə)n/, U.S. /ɡæmˈboʊdʒ(i)ən/, /ɡæmˈbuʒ(i)ən/ rare.
Having the yellow colour of gamboge; coloured with, or as if with, gamboge. Occasionally as n.
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gambogian1837
1837 Monthly Rev. Aug. 475 [Charles Lamb, letter] The glories that I have observed to encircle the heads of saints and madonnas in those old paintings, have been mostly of a dirty drab-coloured yellow—a dull gambogian [1797 gambogium].
1873 Cambr. City (Indiana) Tribune 25 Dec. 1/6 His style is that of a superannuated Cicero, with no toga knocking against his shrunk shanks, but dressed in gambogian nankeen vest and modern clawhammer coat.
1919 C. S. Osborn Iron Hunter xvi. 150 Harvest fields are gambogian in their ripeness.
1941 N. Alley I Witness xvi. 153 The children laughed as they pointed at our ludicrous gambogian makeups.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.n.1837