lacker
Britishnoun
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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
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
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
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
"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
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