- a variation of lacquer.
lacker
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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 Compton MacKenzie
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 Compton MacKenzie
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 Major W. E Frye
"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 Frederick Marryat
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 Anthony Trollope
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