lacquer

This is drilled into African American girls from early childhood, when Disney first sinks its lacquered claws into America’s daughters.

For the moment, if it’s a Monday at 5:30 p.m., you can find Singletary at his black lacquered piano ready to welcome anyone who needs it into the “Piano & Prayer” family.

But look a little closer and you’ll notice a layer of thick, shiny lacquer, still wet after these films have been haphazardly jammed through the marketing machine.

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

Around since the 1850s, tintype photography captures a still image on a thin metal plate coated with dark lacquer or enamel.