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 MacKenzie, Compton
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
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
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 MacKenzie, Compton
But it may do, for chapels like churches are getting proud things now-a-days, and they believe in both lacker and gilt.
From Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus
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