shellac
Example Sentences
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It took the combination of shellac discs, electronic amplification and an automatic record-changer for National Automatic Music Company to manufacture the first 20-song multiplay machines in 1927.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
Human societies have used plastics that occur naturally in the environment for hundreds of years, in the form of rubber, horn and shellac.
From BBC • Aug. 5, 2025
Instead, “People getting ready to do things” is spelled out in egg yolk, besmirching the virginal purity of its white satin support; and “It’s only vanishing cream” is translucent shellac disappearing against deathly black.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2024
“Your son has shellac in his veins,” referring to the brittle material used in 78 r.p.m. records.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2023
Outside’s been dunked in a bucket of shiny clear shellac.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
