gamboge

• The first page, which ran down to the letter “a” in the above, was written in pale green ink; the second, running to “b,” was in black; the third, running to “c,” was in red; and the fourth was a medley of these with purple, gamboge, and mauve to make the six colors. —  Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions, v2
• To obtain a complete opacity, and, at the same time, to keep the ink quite fluid, which gives great facility to the designer, one adds some gamboge (or burnt sienna) to the India ink. —  Photographic Reproduction Processes
• Some colours are easily removed, but seventeenth-century gamboge is a perfect beast. —  The Book-Hunter at Home
• Keep them here till next ship--till they are as yellow as gamboge, then send them home--revenge in that Thus did the old gentleman mutter loud enough for Newton to overhear. —  Newton Forster The Merchant Service
• From the wounded leaves and young shoots the gamboge is collected in a liquid state and dried. —  Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists

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