lacker
Britishnoun
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The general effect was of animated Ming laughing, jesting, talking, and dancing with the lacker cabinets that were used to contain it.
From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton
The grand saloon is decorated in a singular style, the panels being painted with upright landscapes, the leafings of which are executed with a kind of silver lacker.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 554, June 30, 1832 by Various
Here too, and from this circumstance, the Palace takes its name, is a collection of Japanese antiquities and ornaments, lacker work in gold and silver, which is unique in the world.
From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Frye, Major W. E
Finally, a lacker table on wheels, overhung by a fringed canopy that protected an enormous bowl of rarest Ming whither odorous vapours ascended from the flowery liquid, was pushed along in slow and reverend state.
From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton
Do you see, dear charmer, I am both porcelain and lacker, so that no one will be able to say you prefer the one to the other.
From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton
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