shellac

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishshellacshel‧lac /ʃəˈlæk/ noun [uncountable] a type of transparent paint for protecting or hardening surfacesExamples from the Corpusshellac• So we went for a shellac finish.• This is particularly so with Sennelier ink, which has a binder of acrylic, resins and shellac which dries hard.• What was needed here was a transparent finish, and it is possible to achieve that with clear shellac.• Conventional shellac records were very brittle; only a few ounces of shear stress would crack them in half.• None of these unbreakable records succeeded in displacing shellac.• With the shellac the colour was all there and more.• Now I have used transparent shellac for many jobs in the past.• Water stains on a ceiling, without deterioration, can be sealed with shellac and the ceiling repainted.Origin shellac (1600-1700) shell + lac “hard substance produced by an insect” ((15-21 centuries)) (from Portuguese laca; → LACQUER1), translating French laque en écailles “lac in thin flakes”

单词	shellac
释义	shellac From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishshellacshel‧lac /ʃəˈlæk/ noun [uncountable] a type of transparent paint for protecting or hardening surfacesExamples from the Corpusshellac• So we went for a shellac finish.• This is particularly so with Sennelier ink, which has a binder of acrylic, resins and shellac which dries hard.• What was needed here was a transparent finish, and it is possible to achieve that with clear shellac.• Conventional shellac records were very brittle; only a few ounces of shear stress would crack them in half.• None of these unbreakable records succeeded in displacing shellac.• With the shellac the colour was all there and more.• Now I have used transparent shellac for many jobs in the past.• Water stains on a ceiling, without deterioration, can be sealed with shellac and the ceiling repainted.Origin shellac (1600-1700) shell + lac “hard substance produced by an insect” ((15-21 centuries)) (from Portuguese laca; → LACQUER1), translating French laque en écailles “lac in thin flakes”
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