lacquer

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• lacker (obsolete)

Borrowed from French lacque (“a sort of sealing wax”), from Portuguese laca, lacca (“gum lac”), from Persian لاک (lâk), from Hindi लाख (lākh), from Sanskrit लाक्षा (lākṣā).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlæk.ə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlæk.ɚ/

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• Homophone: lacker
• Rhymes: -ækə(ɹ)

lacquer (countable and uncountable, plural lacquers)

1. A glossy, resinous material used as a surface coating; either a natural exudation of certain trees, or a solution of nitrocellulose in alcohol, etc.

   Synonym: varnish

   • 1840, Frances Trollope, “Practical Information Carefully Obtained, and Promptly Acted upon— ”, in The Widow Married; , volume III, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 2:

     Had he deemed it "wisest, best," Mr. O'Donagough was not without the means of furnishing a splendid mansion in very showy style, and yet not leaving a single morsel of lacker, or or-molu, unpaid for.

   • 1954, Arthur K. Doolittle, The technology of solvents and plasticizers:

     It is a solvent for nitrocellulose and vinyl chloride-acetate resins and may function as an antiblush agent in lacquers.

   • 1960, Francis E. Condon, Herbert Meislich, Introduction to Organic Chemistry‎, page 274:

     Cellosolves are used as solvents for lacquers, for sealing cellophane wrapping, and in hydraulic-brake fluid.

   • 1992, Tadashi Inumaru, Mitsukuni Yoshida, The Traditional Crafts of Japan: Wood and bamboo:

     In place of traditional methods in which materials such as gesso, yellow ocher, powdered earth, liquid glue, and Japan tallow were used to obtain a gloss, and transparent lacquer was rubbed into the wood to protect it, materials such as artificially produced varoids and lacquer came into widespread use.

lacquer (third-person singular simple present lacquers, present participle lacquering, simple past and past participle lacquered)

1. To apply a lacquer to something or to give something a smooth, glossy finish.

• “lacquer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “lacquer”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “lacquer”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• claquer, Racquel, calquer