Definitions for lacquer

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lacquer lac·quer

Spelling: [lak-er]

IPA: /ˈlæk ər/

Lacquer is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 141 anagrams from letters in lacquer (acelqru).

Definitions for lacquer

noun

1. a protective coating consisting of a resin, cellulose ester, or both, dissolved in a volatile solvent, sometimes with pigment added.
2. any of various resinous varnishes, especially a resinous varnish obtained from a Japanese tree, Rhus verniciflua, used to produce a highly polished, lustrous surface on wood or the like.
3. Also called lacquer ware, lacquerware. ware, especially of wood, coated with such a varnish, and often inlaid:
4. Slang. any volatile solvent that produces euphoria when inhaled.

verb (used with object)

1. to coat with lacquer.
2. to cover, as with facile or fluent words or explanations cleverly worded, etc.; obscure the faults of; gloss (often followed by over):

Origin of lacquer

1570-80; earlier leckar, laker Portuguese lacre, lacar, unexplained variant of laca Arabic lakk Persian lâk lac¹

Examples for lacquer

The walls are all covered with the finest paintings in gold and lacquer.

They were formed of wicker work, and covered outside with lacquer.

Their position is so assured that they do not need that lacquer of calmness of which we were speaking.

By the time the young lady was marriageable, her outfit of lacquer was superb.

The lacquer cures for 72 hours, and then is sanded by hand to buff out any imperfections.

Do you know that he has the one collection of Japanese lacquer in Europe?

The lacquer is drawn from its milky sap and mixed with the oil of the bignonia.

The dressing table and the chaise-longue are of Chinese lacquer.

Will there be one morsel of honest flesh, when all the lacquer of paint is washed off?

These lacquer artists, as I have indicated, worked not for lucre, but for love.