Crossword clues for shellacked
shellacked
Wiktionary
a. coated in shellac
WordNet
n. lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white
a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood [syn: shellac varnish]
v. cover with shellac; "She wanted to shellac the desk to protect it from water spots"
[also: shellacking, shellacked]
See shellac
Usage examples of "shellacked".
Grinning as he stopped in front of her desk, he leaned his palms against its expensive shellacked surface.
There was nothing but -the shellacked pine-board panel opposite me to direct my eyes at.
On it presently, the panel, I made out a faint tracing, still visible though it had been shellacked over.
His hands were folded on the shellacked birch rail of the witness stand and he maintained an impressive executive timbre in answering yes.
The drawer was lined with shellacked newspapers from the early 1900s, advertising farming equipment.
They are men spangled with epaulettes, toggles, tabs, and insignias, the breezy rapists from the Nautica ads, cool and criminal in their poplins, shellacked with light, but they know they’re in costume, that they’ve made an effort that other men, men like Tom, aren’t forced to make.
The gold-stamped spines of leather and vellum-bound tomes lined a high bookcase along one wall, and ornate tables, shellacked boxes, glittering robes and dim, disturbing paintings filled the rest of the room.