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Another word for lacquer

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Noun
      1. The surface given to wood, metal, etc. as by painting, varnishing, etc.
      2. Anything used to give a desired surface effect, as paint, varnish, polish, wax, etc.
      3. The reason for one's ruin; downfall:
      1. Any attractive but superficial appearance or display
      2. Any of the thin layers glued together to form plywood
      3. A thin surface layer of fine wood or costly material laid over a base of common material
      1. An old phonograph record containing this substance, typically played at 78 rpm.
      2. A thin, usually clear kind of varnish containing this resin and alcohol
      3. Refined lac, a resinous substance usually produced in thin, flaky layers or shells and used in making varnish, phonograph records, insulating materials, etc.
    See also:

    varnish

    cover

    coat

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Sentence Examples

  • As a lacquer painter he left a strong mark upon the work of his contemporaries and successors.

  • In the manufacture of Japanese lacquer there are three processes.

  • This new departure reached its climax in the Tokugawa mausolea of Yedo and NikkO, which are enriched by the possession of the most splendid applications of lacquer decoration the world has ever seen, nor is it likely that anything of comparable beauty and grandeur will be again produced in the same line.

  • The lacquer ware of Nyaung-u and other villages near Pagan is noted throughout Burma.

  • The latterfor which the generic term in Japan is mushi or kaichinclude some beautiful species, from the jewel beetle (tama-mushi), the gold beetle (kogane-mushi) and the Chrysochroa fulgidissima, which glow and sparkle with the brilliancy of gold and precious stones, to the jet black Melanauster chinensis, which- seems to have been fashioned out of lacquer spotted with white.

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