ppl. a. [f. LACQUER v. + -ED1.] Covered or coated with lacquer; varnished.
1687. Lond. Gaz., No. 2273/7. Lackered Ware Trunks.
1731. Swift, Answ. Simile, 115. Apollo stirs not out of door Without his lacker’d coach and four.
1777. Robertson, Hist. Amer. (1783), III. 379. They are composed of … lacquered copper-plates.
1838. Dickens, Nich. Nick., vi. With spears in their hands like lackered area railings.
1855. Thackeray, Newcomes, II. 240. The other passed into the club in his lacquered boots.
1859. L. Oliphant, China & Japan, II. x. 227. A lacquered cabinet, very highly finished.
transf. and fig. 1805. Sir M. A. Shee, Rhymes on Art (1806), 42. Life a listless, lacker’d gloom.
1851. D. Jerrold, St. Giles, xxiii. 241. The thief’s face … wore the smug, lackered look of a fortunate scoundrel.
1854. Thackeray, Newcomes, I. 74. His lacquered moustache.
1884. Browning, Ferishtah’s Fancies (1885), 94. Knowledge, the golden?—lacquered ignorance!
