lacker
Britishnoun
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But it may do, for chapels like churches are getting proud things now-a-days, and they believe in both lacker and gilt.
From Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus
What's the use of a lot of tinsel and lacker, if the real metal isn't there?
From The Way We Live Now by Trollope, Anthony
"By de holy poker, Massa Easy, but that terrible sort of gale the other day anyhow—I tink one time, we all go to Davy Joney's lacker."
From Mr. Midshipman Easy by Marryat, Frederick
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
Perhaps with others, more happily constituted, the impression would have been confirmed and fixed; but in my case it was a mere lacker that the first rubbing in the world was sure to brush off.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
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