What is "japanned"

Usage examples of "japanned".

William set the spectacles on a japanned teapoy and returned his attention to her silk-clad limb.

But why go on with the catalogue, when most of these pictures can be seen either at the Athenaeum building in Beacon Street or at the Art Gallery, and admired or criticised perhaps more justly, certainly not more generously, than in those earlier years when we looked at them through the japanned fish-horns?

So as it was pretty late now, and he was unwilling to ring his bell at that hour of the night, he slipped on his coat, of which he had just divested himself, and taking the japanned candlestick in his hand, walked quietly downstairs.

He had looped a cartridge belt around his neck as a sling, and the arm was supported partly by the belt and partly by the black japanned despatch case strapped to the pommel of his saddle.

A celestial globe was heaped on top of a japanned chest of drawers.

Into them were crammed three desks, two typewriters, a duplicating machine, some dozens of black japanned deed boxes, a sink, kettle, cups and saucers, a wooden filing cupboard, two women wearing woollen jumpers, a box of coal, and Mr Clapper Buxton, Loughbury’.

I still remember the pride I felt when he strapped the black japanned tin lined with green to my tiny back, and though at the time I was only four and much too young to enjoy searching in the heat for rare plants like Ladies' Tresses and Green Hellebore, the names of the plants, like the dates of the English kings, were impressed upon my mind so vividly that it has been impossible for me ever to forget them.