lacquer

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

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

Then she thought that what she really needed was the lacquer without the wood, but she quailed at the idea of making another sheet; how could she make it flat without a backing anyway?

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

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

Epoxy resins are used as lacquers to coat metal products such as food cans, bottle tops, and water supply pipes.

From Textbooks ● Sep. 6, 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

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

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

You want a ham with presence: With a lacquered crust, a resonant aroma, and a glaze that turns it into something more than the sum of its parts.

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025

Above it sits a dome of 112 overlapping and intertwined lacquered rose-gold leaves.

From New York Times ● May 9, 2024

Zohra points with her eyebrows toward a stall filled with colorful lacquered boxes and figurines.

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan

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.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 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

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