to lacquer

Examples

• All

• Yeah, they've only lacquered half the floor.

  The Holdovers (2023)

• Almost everything seemed to have been built into the room except for a few lacquered chests of various sizes.

  Fiction book (1992)

• I'm going to do some spot touch up, but I love this stuff and really, really I love lacquer because how quickly it dries.

• The sorts of things that they use on cars, when you apply lacquer in many coats or build up layers, you do tend to get a glass like finish.

• Morgan filled it before setting it down on the lacquered Art Deco coffee table in front of the sofa.

  Fiction book (1992)

• The floor, a huge gymnasium-like expanse, is lacquered with polyurethane.

  Fiction book (1990)

• There was a silver coffee service, surrounded by white porcelain cups, sitting on a sleek lacquered credenza.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Rachel disappears into the guest bathroom and reappears with a lacquered tissue dispenser.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Her bedroom was elaborately decorated with white lacquered, vaguely French-looking furniture and frilly, girly-girl curtains.

  Fiction book (1991)

• He decided to lacquer the wooden table to give it a glossy finish.

Synonyms

G

to glaze

vsto lacquer

33 4.2

To cover a surface with a smooth shiny liquid that dries hard, for example on food or pottery

is a glossy protective coating used across materials not mainly for ceramics

V

to varnish

vsto lacquer

5 4.2

To put a clear hard shiny layer on wood to protect it and make it shine

is the same glossy protective coating but denotes a specific traditional formula

E

to enamel

vsto lacquer

3 6.5

To cover a surface with a hard shiny layer for protection or decoration

is a glossy protective coating that is thinner and not always glassy

S

to shellac

vsto lacquer

• Specialized

1 7.8

Cover something with a shiny protective finish made from a natural hard substance

is a glossy protective coating usually made from synthetic materials rather than natural resin

J

to japan

vsto lacquer

• Archaic

9.9

To cover an object with a hard shiny coating in a Japanese style

is the general glossy protective coating not limited to that tradition

Compounds

C

Chinese lacquer tree

9.9

A small tree from China and Japan that makes a poisonous sap used to make a hard shiny coating

L

lacquer tree

9.3

A small Asian tree that gives a poisonous sap used to make a hard shiny finish

J

Japanese lacquer tree

9.3

A small East Asian tree that makes a poisonous sap used for lacquer

How Glossy

to lacquer

8 6.4

shellac

• Specialized

4 7.4

to varnish

5 4.2

to paint

854 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology