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japan

[juh-pan] / dʒəˈpæn /




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Shame on anyone who shall try to shame them for that and deny them basic rights. tpng813 Just like how japan denies its massive massacres across china.

From Time ● Aug. 13, 2013

In the other case shellac, when rubbed with oil, should be cleaned with japan.

From French Polishing and Enamelling A Practical Work of Instruction by Richard Bitmead

The walls, highly painted and glittering with japan, were hung with Chinese pictures in gilded and japanned frames.

From The War Tiger Or, Adventures and Wonderful Fortunes of the Young Sea Chief and His Lad Chow: A Tale of the Conquest of China by William Dalton

Amateurs would have spread the japan too thickly in some spots, too thinly in others; but not so these veterans at their trade.

From The Story of Leather by Sara Ware Bassett

She said that "them she bought of tin-peddlers wuzn't worth a cent—the japan all wore off of 'em."

From Samantha at the World's Fair by Baron C. de Grimm

His sponges were the ordinary reef sponges and these he would rinse in an old japanned basin, changing the water in the basin only when it became too bloody to return the sponges relatively clean.

From Time Magazine Archive

He lighted the shank of candle in the japanned candlestick and regarded the bed—as spineless as a hammock and covered with a dirty patchwork quilt, the cotton batting spilling from the edges.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

"Why didn't they purloin a beer-stein, quiescent on a japanned tray?"

From My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life by Anonymous

You met them with their brown canvas satchels and japanned tin specimen-cases, poking about up the Trwyn or groping in the boggy patches about Sarn.

From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions

At the head of the table was a large salver, or japanned waiter, upon which was spread out various utensils of China-ware,—the only articles of plate being a sugar-dish and cream-pot.

From The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns by William Alexander Caruthers

The great drawback to the use of gas for heating japanning and enamelling stoves is the great cost of coal gas.

From Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing by William N. Brown

Stoves heated by direct fire.—These were, of course, the form in which japanning ovens were constructed somewhat after the style of a drying kiln.

From Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing by William N. Brown

While at Birmingham he made some important improvements in the process of japanning, and gained a considerable fortune.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various

The above four receipts are used in japanning.

From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Daniel Young

Dick interposed with a question as to the process, aim, and object of japanning, but Mr Button passed the question by.

From The Blue Lagoon: a romance by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole


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