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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of lacquer.

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Examples

  • Another had a rainbow in lacquered colors sweeping across the face of the nail.

    The Day The World Became Shut To Me gieves 2006

  • Dancers in lacquered black masks perform the dance of the Moors in Michoacan.

    Masks and feather head dresses: Mexicans celebrate danzas 2000

  • Dancers in lacquered black masks perform the dance of the Moors in Michoacan.

    Masks and feather head dresses: Mexicans celebrate danzas 2000

  • It was covered in a kind of lacquered felt, bonded into the main shell.

    365 tomorrows » 2010 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010

  • As a side note, some of Parfums de Nicolai scents, in particular Sacrebleu and Vanille Tonka, have a similar, although much less "lacquered" creaminess on my skin.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Marina Geigert 2007

  • As far as my nose is concerned, Aoud Velvet starts with jam-like raspberry, followed by a note that smells decidedly peachy by the way, peach is quite prominent in Chinatown ...the peach note is soon accompanied by vanilla, then tiare appears on the scene, and then the "lacquered" effect I described above begins to unfold.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Marina Geigert 2007

  • All Colette's efforts to equip her with the brilliant artificiality which is so easily imposed on the mind of a young girl, like a kind of lacquered varnish, had been wasted: the varnish would not hold.

    Jean-Christophe Journey's End Romain Rolland 1905

  • Tapping my heels against the black lacquered wooden floors, I hoped that my capful of nervousness didn't make a dent in the fresh polish.

    Chie Davis: Sitting Down with Victoria Rowell Chie Davis 2011

  • I should write about what I've seen: expensive women in summer pearls, their blonde faces tanned the shade of their husbands' Church-brand shoes; lacquered restaurants where men, even in this torpid weather, wear black tie and prissily fold their hands so they won't spill their drinks; and in the neatly gardened streets of quiet clapboard houses, rabbits nibbling by moonlight, their usual terror muted by the town's mock-innocence.

    New Jersey Moon William Doreski 2011

  • A giant, brass French bulldog sculpture ablaze in a riot of punk-rock, lacquered hues greeted initially startled guests who ultimately had to comply that the invitation had, after all, read, "Qui est Doggy John?"

    Anisha Lakhani: Manhattan Medici: A Renaissance of Art, Design, and Innovation During NY Design Week 2011 Anisha Lakhani 2011

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