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lacquer-ware

lacquer-ware is the alternative form of lacquerware.

Meaning of lacquerware

Noun

lacquerware (countable and uncountable, plural lacquerwares)

  1. Decorative items coated with lacquer.
    • Domestic demand from middling as well as noble audiences for exotic semi-luxury imports such as cotton goods, porcelain and lacquer-ware was strong enough to stimulate moves towards import substitution.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 356
    Synonyms:
    japan

Questions about lacquer-ware

What is lacquer-ware the alternative form of?
Lacquer-ware is the alternative form of lacquerware.

Words near lacquer-ware in the dictionary

  1. Lacours
  2. Lacovia
  3. lacquer
  4. lacquer tree
  5. lacquer trees
  6. lacquer-ware
  7. lacquerable
  8. lacquered
  9. lacquerer
  10. lacquerers
  11. lacquering

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