lacker
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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
"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
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
Finally, a lacker table on wheels, overhung by a fringed canopy that protected an enormous bowl of rarest Ming whither odorous vapours ascended from the flowery liquid, was pushed along in slow and reverend state.
From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie
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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