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noun
A glossy, resinous material used as a surface coating; either a natural exudation of certain trees, or a solution of nitrocellulose in alcohol, etc.
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Rice vinegars and soys sit beside unagi sauce ($2.49 per250-gramm bottle), used to lacquer eel.
He uses it to lacquer pork belly, give cakes depth and add character to browned butter that dresses up roasted sweet potato soup.
Numerous additives are known historically to have been added to lacquer during manufacture, in order to facilitate the curing process or to modify its final appearance32,33,34.
The simultaneous development of ancient imported styles and ones that grew out of an indigenous tradition is also evident in the "Forms of Design" section, devoted to lacquer, woodwork, ceramics and the tea ceremony.
(Though trained as a lacquer worker in boyhood, he had turned to painting at 16 and enjoyed considerable success in that field before going back to lacquer later in life).
(Though trained as a lacquer worker in boyhood, he had turned to painting at 16 and enjoyed considerable success in that field before going back to lacquer later in life). If he had a wild streak, however, he evidently kept it in check.
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"The EMI 'way' was to move inexorably upward, from assistant to playback lacquer to mastering to balance engineer, whether that's what you wanted to do or not.
What keeps it from looking too modern, is the material: I typically use wood as opposed to glass or lacquer to keep it transitional.
Other designs in the Director show the Rococo adaptations of Chinese and Gothic styles, some to be carved in softwood and gilded or japanned (an East Asian process, similar to lacquering).
Meant to look lacquered, it is painted with green linseed oil and decorated with silvered floral motifs.
The tintype was an early photographic process by which positive black-and-white images were made on the silver-halide collodion emulsion, added to thin lacquered iron plates and fixed with potassium cyanide.
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