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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024lac•quer /ˈlækɚ/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]- Furniturea varnish made of resin and painted or sprayed on a surface for protection or to give it a shiny coating.
v. [~ + object] - to coat with lacquer:to lacquer the wood.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024lac•quer (lak′ər),USA pronunciation n. - Furniturea protective coating consisting of a resin, cellulose ester, or both, dissolved in a volatile solvent, sometimes with pigment added.
- Furnitureany of various resinous varnishes, esp. a resinous varnish obtained from a Japanese tree, Rhus verniciflua, used to produce a highly polished, lustrous surface on wood or the like.
- FurnitureAlso called lac′quer ware′, lac′quer•ware′. ware, esp. of wood, coated with such a varnish, and often inlaid:They collected fine Oriental lacquers.
- Drugs, Slang Terms[Slang.]any volatile solvent that produces euphoria when inhaled.
v.t. - to coat with lacquer.
- to cover, as with facile or fluent words or explanations cleverly worded, etc.;
obscure the faults of;
gloss (often fol. by over):The speech tended to lacquer over the terrible conditions.
Also, lacker. - Persian lâk lac1
- Arabic lakk
- Portuguese lacre, lacar, unexplained variant of laca
- earlier leckar, laker 1570–80
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: lacquer /ˈlækə/ n - a hard glossy coating made by dissolving cellulose derivatives or natural resins in a volatile solvent
- a black resinous substance, obtained from certain trees, used to give a hard glossy finish to wooden furniture
- lacquer tree ⇒
Also called: varnish tree an E Asian anacardiaceous tree, Rhus verniciflua, whose stem yields a toxic exudation from which black lacquer is obtained - Also called: hair lacquer a mixture of shellac and alcohol for spraying onto the hair to hold a style in place
- decorative objects coated with such lacquer, often inlaid
vb - (transitive) to apply lacquer to
Etymology: 16th Century: from obsolete French lacre sealing wax, from Portuguese laca lac1ˈlacquerer n |