lacquer
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And the red at-home nail lacquer, released by Revlon in the early 1930s, was a badge of honour for modern women rebelling against that kind of oppressive judgement.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
The Georgian-style, brick and stone home offers an array of gorgeous details, like glossy wood and stone floors, red lacquer walls in the formal dining room, and numerous fireplaces.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 25, 2026
The barrels -- bound tightly with rope, their fabric skins stiffened and darkened with lacquer -- inevitably recall the Gulf's vast hydrocarbon wealth.
From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026
Ms. Kondo illustrates mottainai through art forms that evolved from the spirit of preservation—including kintsugi, or the painstaking process of repairing broken pottery with a combination of lacquer and gold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
They were only visible through one small part of the lacquer, and then Mary realized why: at that point she had touched the surface of it with her oily fingers.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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But although Waititi eventually reveals the darkness at his story’s center, before then he lacquers the film with a calculated gooeyness that’s stultifying before it becomes downright exasperating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Coating fossils with varnishes and/or lacquers was the norm in the past and sometimes is still necessary to preserve a fossil specimen in museum cabinets and exhibits.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2024
More tangerine wedges cook alongside the bird in the same pan, their piths softening in the sauce that lacquers the bird.
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2022
She mixes marmalade into compound butters, slips stone-fruit preserves into a marinade or on top of a pizza, and lacquers chicken wings with apricot jam.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2019
The strong odor of the colored lacquers can be smelled out on the sidewalk, even with the door shut.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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TAICHUNG, Taiwan—The first course arrived on a miniature lacquered rack, the kind you’d expect to hold ink brushes in a scholar’s studio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
In the oven, that aerated layer rises and sets into a thin, lacquered shell, delicate but intentional.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2026
The listing adds, “The custom lacquered kitchen, finished in rich Aegean blue with bronze accents and Calacatta marble, is as functional as it is striking.”
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2025
Kelce has gone the extra mile, buying a onetime muffler shop to expand Operation Breakthrough’s campus and create the Ignition Lab, in which students convert dilapidated jalopies into lacquered, showroom-ready electric vehicles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2024
Some people in a lacquered wooden boat approached us on the canal below.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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As I wrote in a recent article, I'm a proponent of lacquering bacon with the sweet-and-savory combo of maple syrup and white miso, which is the perfect complement to its salty, pork-y, smoky essence.
From Salon ● Jan. 26, 2023
He works on multiple tigers at a time and employs two or three people to help with sanding, lacquering and finishing tasks, he said.
From Reuters ● Jan. 25, 2022
“Manolo will be in the kitchen cooking his wonderful cuisine, and I’ll be in the larder, lacquering my Louis Vuitton cases with yacht varnish, bringing them to a high shine,” he tells me.
From The Guardian ● May 23, 2020
Try snipping locks or lacquering nails at the recommended safe distance of six feet.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2020
Bridget sat on the toilet lid, lacquering her nails with ballet pink, the radio perched behind her on top of the tank.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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