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غُمْرَةٌ ذ A kind of liniment, made from [the plant called] وَرْس, (S, TA,) used by a bride, for her person: (TA:) or [the plant] ورس [itself]: (TA:) or saffron; as also ↓ غُمْرٌ : (K:) or كُرْكُمٌ [which also means saffron and bastard saffron]: or gypsum; syn. جِصٌّ: or, accord. to Aboo-Sa'eed, a mixture of dates and milk, with which the face of a woman is smeared, to render her skin fine: and the pl. is غُمَرٌ. (TA.) [See also خُمْرَةٌ.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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