ppl. a. [f. JAPAN v.]
1. Varnished, lacquered or adorned with japan or in Japanese style.
1693–4. in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. V. 338. The tortoise-shell room, and the japanned room.
1717. Bullock, Woman is a riddle, I. i. 6. A japan’d cane, and a brush’d beaver.
1727. A. Hamilton, New Acc. E. Ind., II. lv. 305. Their lackt or japon’d Ware is … the best in the World.
1851. Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib., 1356. Specimens of japanned tea-trays.
b. Polished with blacking.
1750. Student, I. 93. A white Hand … being the same to a FIDDLER as japan’d pumps are to a DANCER.
1848. Thackeray, Bk. Snobs, Pref. (1892), 3. He wore japanned boots and moustachios.
2. Made or become Japanese.
1889. W. Cory, Lett. & Jrnls. (1897), 540. The ‘nice’ drivel of talk in Japanned parlours.
1895. Westm. Gaz., 26 Nov., 7/1. More will be heard later of these japanned Chinese.
