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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

She’s offset the building’s cement with a childhood baby grand piano and her grandmother’s lacquer vanity with pearl inlay.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

With her little lacquer brush, while the phone was ringing, she went over the nail of her little finger, accentuating the line of the moon.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

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

Technological advancements have further opened up design possibilities, introducing unique materials such as flexible stone cladding, fingerprint-resistant matte lacquers, fluted wood veneers and lightweight metal paneling.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024

In his recent sculptures, Hartenstein has been incorporating a cerulean pigment developed in the G.D.R. for industrial lacquers, which he recalls seeing his grandfather use for carpentry.

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023

"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

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

In the oven, that aerated layer rises and sets into a thin, lacquered shell, delicate but intentional.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 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

For the moment, if it’s a Monday at 5:30 p.m., you can find Singletary at his black lacquered piano ready to welcome anyone who needs it into the “Piano & Prayer” family.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2025

Above it sits a dome of 112 overlapping and intertwined lacquered rose-gold leaves.

From New York Times ● May 9, 2024

Nye leaned against the desk and watched the landlady’s long and lacquered fingernails search a page of pencil-scribbled names.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

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.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 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

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