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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

For the dining room walls, eight Parisian artisans were flown in for months to achieve a Japanese-inspired lacquer finish.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

She’s offset the building’s cement with a childhood baby grand piano and her grandmother’s lacquer vanity with pearl inlay.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

Her short hair was tucked into this hat, except for two perfect curls on her forehead that faced each other like black lacquer carvings.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

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

"Freddie was brilliant because he could score more with fewer tiles," Taylor said, but Brian May held the band's record for best word: "lacquers," with the Q on the triple points square.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2021

The four drawers in this new collection contain 24 locally developed nail lacquers in a handy travel size.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2018

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

“Stone and hardwood floors, high ceilings, a high tech kitchen features lacquered wood cabinetry and Miele appliances,” reads the listing, which is held by Myra Nourmand of Nourmand & Associates.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 16, 2026

And then there are the newer versions — birds brined in buttermilk or their skins lacquered to glossy, bronzed perfection.

From Salon ● May 9, 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

Onscreen, as Elena, Winslet is coifed and practically corseted into form-fitting skirt suits, with lacquered fake nails.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2024

Their graying hands stand out in contrast to the black lacquered finish of the rickshaw handles.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

She experimented with lacquering on gold leaf and painting on glass and fabrics.

From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2015

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