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lacquer

[lak-er] / ˈlæk ər /


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The Georgian-style, brick and stone home offers an array of gorgeous details, like glossy wood and stone floors, red lacquer walls in the formal dining room, and numerous fireplaces.

From MarketWatch Mar. 25, 2026

The barrels -- bound tightly with rope, their fabric skins stiffened and darkened with lacquer -- inevitably recall the Gulf's vast hydrocarbon wealth.

From Barron's Feb. 16, 2026

For the dining room walls, eight Parisian artisans were flown in for months to achieve a Japanese-inspired lacquer finish.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 19, 2025

Instead, he seems as if he’s trying to lacquer on a veneer of righteousness to some very nasty business.

From Slate Nov. 20, 2025

The sap lacquer was a product of another and much smaller tree, which the mulefa cultivated for that purpose.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

Coating fossils with varnishes and/or lacquers was the norm in the past and sometimes is still necessary to preserve a fossil specimen in museum cabinets and exhibits.

From Science Daily Feb. 16, 2024

More tangerine wedges cook alongside the bird in the same pan, their piths softening in the sauce that lacquers the bird.

From New York Times Feb. 18, 2022

"Freddie was brilliant because he could score more with fewer tiles," Taylor said, but Brian May held the band's record for best word: "lacquers," with the Q on the triple points square.

From Salon Oct. 9, 2021

She mixes marmalade into compound butters, slips stone-fruit preserves into a marinade or on top of a pizza, and lacquers chicken wings with apricot jam.

From Seattle Times Jun. 4, 2019

The strong odor of the colored lacquers can be smelled out on the sidewalk, even with the door shut.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Kale and bok choy with their cool, lacquered leaves.

From Salon Mar. 1, 2026

The listing adds, “The custom lacquered kitchen, finished in rich Aegean blue with bronze accents and Calacatta marble, is as functional as it is striking.”

From MarketWatch Nov. 10, 2025

Ten feet tall and made of black lacquered wood decorated with gold, the shrine was carried in the Nisei Week Festival parade in Little Tokyo in August 1960, The Times reported.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2024

Onscreen, as Elena, Winslet is coifed and practically corseted into form-fitting skirt suits, with lacquered fake nails.

From New York Times Mar. 3, 2024

He waved his hand and an attendant laid more dishes on a small lacquered table.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

As I wrote in a recent article, I'm a proponent of lacquering bacon with the sweet-and-savory combo of maple syrup and white miso, which is the perfect complement to its salty, pork-y, smoky essence.

From Salon Jan. 26, 2023

He works on multiple tigers at a time and employs two or three people to help with sanding, lacquering and finishing tasks, he said.

From Reuters Jan. 25, 2022

“Manolo will be in the kitchen cooking his wonderful cuisine, and I’ll be in the larder, lacquering my Louis Vuitton cases with yacht varnish, bringing them to a high shine,” he tells me.

From The Guardian May 23, 2020

Try snipping locks or lacquering nails at the recommended safe distance of six feet.

From Washington Post Apr. 3, 2020

Bridget sat on the toilet lid, lacquering her nails with ballet pink, the radio perched behind her on top of the tank.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen




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