lacquer
/ˈlæk.ɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.92 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Had he deemed it "wisest, best," Mr. O'Donagough was not without the means of furnishing a splendid mansion in very showy style, and yet not leaving a single morsel of lacker, or or-molu, unpaid for."
- "It is a solvent for nitrocellulose and vinyl chloride-acetate resins and may function as an antiblush agent in lacquers."
- "Cellosolves are used as solvents for lacquers, for sealing cellophane wrapping, and in hydraulic-brake fluid."
- "In place of traditional methods in which materials such as gesso, yellow ocher, powdered earth, liquid glue, and Japan tallow were used to obtain a gloss, and transparent lacquer was rubbed into the wood to protect it, materials such as artificially produced varoids and lacquer came into widespread use."
- "[…] a strange woman stepped out of the nearest pillar in the Tomb. The woman had long curly red hair under a pillbox hat shaped like one of the lacquered discs where the Beldame had kept her spare monocles."
Etymology
Borrowed from French lacque (“a sort of sealing wax”), from Portuguese laca, lacca (“gum lac”), from Persian لاک (lâk), from Hindi लाख (lākh), from Sanskrit लाक्षा (lākṣā). Doublet of lac.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: laca, لاک, लाख, लाक्षा
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈlæk.ɚ/
- British English: /ˈlæk.ə/