shellac
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It took the combination of shellac discs, electronic amplification and an automatic record-changer for National Automatic Music Company to manufacture the first 20-song multiplay machines in 1927.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
Human societies have used plastics that occur naturally in the environment for hundreds of years, in the form of rubber, horn and shellac.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2025
Instead, “People getting ready to do things” is spelled out in egg yolk, besmirching the virginal purity of its white satin support; and “It’s only vanishing cream” is translucent shellac disappearing against deathly black.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2024
Trompe l’oeil artists were also highly in demand in the decorative arts, and wealthy patrons would hire peintres-décorateurs to shellac their drawing rooms with imitation marble and porphyry.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
Outside’s been dunked in a bucket of shiny clear shellac.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
Ms. Zacarías shellacs a thin veneer of seriousness on the play by having the actors intone into microphones various statistics vaguely pertaining to the plotline.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2015
He runs three miles, showers, shellacs his white-gray hair and hops into the back of a black government sedan that waits outside his home in suburban Virginia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sculptor Fingesten works chiefly in concrete and stucco, gets his variety of texture and color by mixing pigments into the wet cement or plaster, coating some figures with beeswax, finishing others with shellacs and acids.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though the sound is monaural, it has been restored lovingly and retains much of the warmth that characterized the best of Europe's prewar 78-r.p.m. shellacs.
From Time Magazine Archive
There's ice, usually, lots of it, that shellacs the sidewalks and windshields that then need to be scraped.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Retail outposts, brick-and-mortar food joints, and text-based media have not been thriving sectors for a while now, but they’ve been especially shellacked in the weird post-pandemic economy.
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2026
Her best friend, Max, who was unofficially adopted by Suzanna’s parents and is shellacked in cynicism as played by the excellent Alden Ehrenreich, exhorts her to pull herself together and face her “big girl problems.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
It’s an oddly false performance that comes across even stiffer as she’s been shellacked with thick makeup and wig-like hair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025
Three months ago, the Scots were shellacked 3-0 at home by Greece, halting any sort of momentum built from three wins on the spin.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2025
It was an old cigar box that had been pasted over with colorful papers, and then shellacked with varnish: a just-because present.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
Even Curaçao, the smallest country ever to play in the World Cup, bounced back from a 7-1 shellacking at the hands of Germany to secure its first ever point with a draw against Ecuador.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
The shellacking that big bank stocks have taken as of late could be an ominous sign about what’s next for the economy.
From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026
North Carolina’s season began on Labor Day with a 48-14 shellacking by TCU in prime time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
Then, in early 1983, six months out from what was expected to be another shellacking in the US, Jacklin was asked to captain the side.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025
He once coxed a Washington crew to a humiliating fifteen-length shellacking of California.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
