Also 8 laccar. [f. LACQUER sb.] trans. To cover or coat with lacquer; hence gen. to varnish; occas. of the material: To serve as a varnish for. Also with over.
1688. G. Parker & J. Stalker, Treat. Japaning, etc., xviii. 56. To Lacker in Oyl, such things as are to be exposed to the Weather.
1692. Lond. Gaz., No. 2813/4. The places appointed for receiving Guns, and Pistols…, or other Ironwork to be Lacquer’d … are [etc.].
1720. De Foe, Capt. Singleton, xviii. (1840), 315. Her stern was now all lackered.
1745. J. Mason, Self-Knowl., III. viii. (1853), 210. A smooth and shining varnish, which may lacker over the basest Metal.
1822. Imison, Sci. & Art, II. 14. The best material for the lamp furnace is brass lackered.
1830. Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 129. The Black Lac of the Burmah country, with which the natives lacker various kinds of ware.
1859. L. Oliphant, China & Japan, II. x. 227. A very handsome china bowl, curiously lacquered inside.
transf. and fig. 1705. T. Bradbury, Serm., 5 Nov., 101. They may have Names that are laccar’d over with a false Divinity.
1720. Gay, Poems (1745), II. 22. From patches justly plac’d they borrow graces And with vermilion lacker o’er their faces.
1755. Connoisseur, No. 65, ¶ 2. A pretty fellow lacquers his pale face with as many varnishes as a fine lady.
1807. Opie, in Lect. Paint., iv. (1848), 336. The knowledge of his principle … served only to lacquer over poverty of thought and feebleness of design.
1831. Edin. Rev., LIII. 223. Lackered over with an outer coating of fair-seeming.
