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Definition of Gombroon
1. a kind of Persian pottery [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gombroon
Literary usage of Gombroon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1827)
"Amid these alarms and altercations, the sea suddenly calmed, and they were enabled,
without difficulty, to reach the port of gombroon. ..."
2. An Account of the War in India, Between the English and French, on the Coast by Richard Owen Cambridge (1761)
"gombroon. '759- A BOUT fifteen degrees weft of Surat, the Eaft-India company ...
called gombroon, which being re- •^ mote from the reft, and what is more, ..."
3. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Chambers, W. and R., publ (1876)
"... GOLPE—gombroon. India-rubber over-shoes which were introduced into Great
Britain from America about the year 1847; but it was some little time after ..."
4. A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for by Thomas Ewbank (1849)
"... Ryers in gombroon—Hindoos praying for water—Caravan of 2000 persons and 1800
camels perished in the African desert—Crusaders. ..."
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