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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
gamboge /gamˈbəʊʒ, -ˈbuːʒ/

▶noun a gum resin produced by certain East Asian trees, used as a yellow pigment and in medicine as a purgative.

– origin C18: from mod. L. gambaugium, from Cambodia.

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