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n.
  1. A brownish or orange resin obtained from several trees of the genus Garcinia of south-central Asia and yielding a golden-yellow pigment.
  2. A strong reddish yellow.

[New Latin cambugium, gambogium, after CAMBODIA.]

gamboge gam·boge' adj.

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(gam-BOJ, -BOOZH)

noun
1. A reddish yellow color.
2. A gum resin obtained from the sap of trees of the genus Garcinia, used as a yellow pigment and as a cathartic.

Etymology
From New Latin gambogium, variant of cambugium, after Cambodia where, among other places in southeast Asia, this tree is found

Usage
"In his (Li Nong's) works, the marshy environment is shown as something mysterious, pleasant and beautiful even, and his play of tones probably spanning the repertoire of gamboge, and cadmium, with streaks of impastoes, add to the tactile quality." — Ooi Kok Chuen; For the Zhangs, East meets West; New Straits Times (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia); Mar 9, 2001.

"What do you make of synaesthesia*? Since a lot of your work is sensual, is finding a way of making visual emotions or reactions to particular natural or made stimuli, do you think thus, that happiness is gamboge, ennui is grey and so on?" — Jonathan Meades; True colours; The Times (London, UK): Mar 31, 2001. (* See http://wordsmith.org/words/synesthesia.html )

 
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gamboge (gămbōj') [Fr.,=Cambodia], an intensely yellow pigment obtained from the sap of Garcinia morella, a tree of SE Asia and Sri Lanka.

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[<New Latin gambogium]   /gam boje/
1) an orange to brown gum resin that becomes bright yellow when powdered, used by artists as a yellow pigment and in medicine as a cathartic
2) a strong yellow that is redder and less strong than yolk yellow or light chrome yellow
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Gamboge
About these coordinatesAbout these coordinates
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #E49B0F
RGBB (r, g, b) (228, 155, 15)
HSV (h, s, v) (38°, 94%, 94%)
Source [Unsourced]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Gamboge (pronounced /gæmˈboʊdʒ/ [gam-bohj] or /gæmˈbuʒ/ [gam-boozh]) is a partially transparent dark mustard yellow pigment.

Gamboge is most often extracted by tapping resin from various species of evergreen trees of the family Guttiferae (also known as Clusiaceae), most often of the gamboge tree (genus Garcinia), including G. hanburyi (Cambodia and Thailand), G. morella (India and Sri Lanka), and G. elliptica and G. heterandra (Myanmar);[1] the orange fruit of Garcinia gummi-gutta (formerly called G. cambogia) is also known as gamboge[2] or gambooge.

The trees must be ten years old before they are tapped.[3] The resin is extracted by making spiral incisions in the bark, and by breaking off leaves and shoots and letting the milky yellow resinous gum drip out. The resulting latex is collected in hollow bamboo canes.[1] After the resin is congealed, the bamboo is broken away and large rods of raw gamboge remain.

The first recorded use of gamboge as a color name in English was in 1634. [4]

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Etymology of gamboge

The word gamboge comes from gambogium, the Latin word for the pigment, which derives from Gambogia, the Latin word for Cambodia.[5]


New gamboge

New gamboge is synthetic yellow pigment.[citation needed] The pigment has a color similar to that of natural gamboge.


Other variations of gamboge

  • Gamboge variation 1 (Hex: #E59F19) RGB (229, 159, 25)
  • Gamboge variation 2 (Hex: #E6A322) RGB (230, 163, 34)
  • Gamboge variation 3 (Hex: #E8A931) RGB (232, 169, 49)
  • Gamboge variation 4 (Hex: #E9AF3F) RGB (233, 175, 63)
  • Gamboge variation 5 (Hex: #ECB957) RGB (236, 185, 87)
  • Gamboge variation 6 (Hex: #E39705) RGB (227, 151, 5)
  • Gamboge variation 7 (Hex: #E29300) RGB (226, 147, 0)
  • Gamboge variation 8 (Hex: #E08D00) RGB (224, 141, 0)
  • Gamboge variation 9 (Hex: #DF8700) RGB (223, 135, 0)
  • Gamboge variation 10 (Hex: #DC7D00) RGB (220, 125, 0)


Gamboge in human culture

Music

  • Gamboge was a local New York City (Brooklyn) Rock Group during May 1965 to April 1970 - members were Gabor Barabas (Lead Singer), Phil Cantor (Lead Guitarist), Martin Cohen (Drums), Paul Wax (Rhythm/Sometimes Guitar), George Reisman (Bass Guitar).

Parapsychology

  • People with gamboge auras are said to be capable of altruistically directing their faculties toward unselfish purposes. [6]

References

  1. ^ a b Nicholas Eastaugh, Valentine Walsh, Tracey Chaplin, and Ruth Siddall (2004). The Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments. Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 0750657499. http://books.google.com/books?id=TKFiYsc_xOAC&pg=PA164&dq=%22Garcinia+hanburyi%22+gambogia&as_brr=3&ei=iurPSObON4GgsgOypNzFCg&sig=ACfU3U2Wi9PgG93QyzkOeFiaXyzoBB6ejQ. 
  2. ^ "Gamboge: Garcinia cambogia". Asia Food. http://www.asiafood.org/glossary_2.cfm?wordid=2651. 
  3. ^ Grieve, Maud; Leyel, C. F. (1971), A Modern Herbal (illustrated ed.), Courier Dover Publications, p. 341, ISBN 0486227987, http://books.google.com/books?id=tLWve-VvBLoC, retrieved 2009-03-03 
  4. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930--McGraw Hill Page 195; Color Sample of Gamboge: Page 43 Plate 10 Color Sample K6
  5. ^ Mish, Frederic C., Editor in Chief Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary Springfield, Massachuetts, U.S.A.:1984--Merriam-Webster Page 504
  6. ^ Arthur E. Powell The Astral Body and Other Astral Phenomenon Wheaton, Illinois:1927—Theosophical Publishing House Page 12

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