Crossword-Solution: CARAMBOLA 9 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

One of these, an olive-complexioned señorita, wears a tell-tale patch of blue paint on her left cheek; condemning testimony that at some period of the evening she danced with that 'mamarracho' whose face is painted like an Indian chief! In a dark corner of the billiard-room, where two gentlemen attired in the garb of Philip the Second are playing carambola against a couple of travestied Charles the Fifths, are seated a snug couple--lover and mistress to all appearance.

Now, we will not leave them, adds the wild man, till you have had a _carambola á boca de jarro!_ "a right-and-left at half-range." For three or four miles, we follow the line, the men hardly deigning to look on the ground, but making, as by instinct, for points at which we invariably picked up the trail.

Thrice has the double _carambola_ been brought off, and now comes the prettiest shot of all--five geese swing past, head up for the decoys, and pass full broadside at deadliest range; they are barely twenty yards away.

The Blimbing, or _Averrhoa Belimbi_; the Blimbing Besse, or _Averrhoa Carambola_; and the Cherrema, or _Averrhoa acida_ of Linnæus, are three species of one genus: and though they differ in shape, are nearly of the same taste.

The carambola (_Averrhoa_) or tree gooseberry is much eaten by the Chinese, but is not relished by foreigners; the tree itself is also an ornament to any pleasure grounds.