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japan

[juh-pan] / dʒəˈpæn /




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Shame on anyone who shall try to shame them for that and deny them basic rights. tpng813 Just like how japan denies its massive massacres across china.

From Time Aug. 13, 2013

Japan colors will give a quicker drying stain than that made with oil colors, and in this case omit the japan and add a little varnish to bind it.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

The figures are all in their proper colours, of a style not unlike those of japan ware, having no pretence to symmetry or proportion. 

From Rambles in an Old City comprising antiquarian, historical, biographical and political associations by S. S. Madders

The repast on the table consisted of a can or large black-jack of small beer, and a japan bread-basket, full of sea-biscuit.

From Frank Mildmay Or, the Naval Officer by Frederick Marryat

A japan screen was unfolded at the end of the room.

From The Young Duke by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

His sponges were the ordinary reef sponges and these he would rinse in an old japanned basin, changing the water in the basin only when it became too bloody to return the sponges relatively clean.

From Time Magazine Archive

He lighted the shank of candle in the japanned candlestick and regarded the bed—as spineless as a hammock and covered with a dirty patchwork quilt, the cotton batting spilling from the edges.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

The walls, highly painted and glittering with japan, were hung with Chinese pictures in gilded and japanned frames.

From The War Tiger Or, Adventures and Wonderful Fortunes of the Young Sea Chief and His Lad Chow: A Tale of the Conquest of China by William Dalton

Hepplewhite, 97, 99, 100. inlaid, 100. japanned, 100.

From Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings by Mary H. Northend

Insects collected on seabeaches, and saturated with salt water, also corrode the common steel pin very quickly and should be mounted on japanned pins.

From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by C. V. Riley

For some time he earned his living as a writing-master; after which he appears to have gone into the japanning trade, and in 1750 embarked some capital in a letter foundry.

From A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 by Alfred W. (Alfred William) Pollard

As painting suited his talents, he entered into the lucrative branch of japanning, and resided at No. 22, in Moor-street.

From An History of Birmingham (1783) by William Hutton

Over the ordinary tanning of the sailor, he seemed masked by a visor of japanning, dotted all over with freckles, so intensely yellow, and symmetrically circular, that they seemed scorched there by a burning glass.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville

The great drawback to the use of gas for heating japanning and enamelling stoves is the great cost of coal gas.

From Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing by William N. Brown

F First stage in the japanning of wood, 5. —— —— in the japanning of leather, without a priming, 5.

From Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing by William N. Brown




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