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Meanings of shellack in English
Synonyms
Examples for "shellac"
Examples for "shellac"
1
Unbleached shellac and a small quantity of lampblack is then stirred in.
2
Upon the second coat of stain apply a thin coat of shellac.
3
The shellac on the wooden boards at either end has not flaked.
4
Upon the shellac apply successively several coats of some good rubbing varnish.
5
Spar varnish is the best for this purpose but shellac will answer.
Usage of shellack in English
1
But it is also used to refer to coating or finishing a surface with shellack, a kind of varnish.
2
Her red wig had extra starch today, every hair shellacked into place.
3
A tragedy occurs one day when a new maid shellacks the comfy chair.
4
The top of a bar is never shellacked, but soaked in linseed oil.
5
In what's been a notably healthy box-office year, Ghost should have shellacked the competition.
6
He shellacked the condensers and other exposed parts and found the proceeding rather effective.
7
I'd been shellacked and sent to the showers before the first inning was over.
8
The tabletop between them was made of heavily shellacked wood.
9
She beams at Jack, her face round as a platter beneath shellacked poodle curls.
10
The proper bright-orange, oiled and shellacked surface is more apt to be a sickly lemon.
11
Green Kevlar, looking like canvas that's been shellacked.
12
Some of the storytellers at these events are a bit shellacked-ina twangy cornpone kind of way.
13
The next landing also had four doors-threeof them apparently nonfunctional, the fourth dark-stainedand shellacked shiny.
14
Louisville last played on Dec. 5 when it shellacked Grand Canyon 111-63.
15
Donny was well-groomed but brittle, as though his look had been not so much preserved as shellacked.
16
The wood should be oiled or shellacked.