In 7 callembour. One of the Fr. forms of prec. [See Littré.]
Said in modern English Dictionaries to be ‘A species of Agallochum or aloes-wood, less fragrant than calambac, used by cabinet-makers’: but this appears to be merely an error copied from dictionary to dictionary.
1685. Lond. Gaz., No. 2011/8. A little Callembour Box.
1847. Craig, Calambac, Aloes-wood. Calambour, the name given to a species of aloes-wood. [in Webster, Ogilvie, Cassell.]
