colophony


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
colophony /kəˈlɒfəni, ˈkɒləˌfəʊni/
noun another term for rosin.
– origin ME: from L. colophonia (resina) ‘(resin) from Colophon’, a town in Lydia, Asia Minor.
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