lacquer
noun
[ ˈlakə ]
• a liquid made of shellac dissolved in alcohol, or of synthetic substances, that dries to form a hard protective coating for wood, metal, etc.
• "shot-blasted mild steel finished in grey mottled epoxy lacquer"
• the sap of the lacquer tree used as a varnish.
• a solution sprayed on to a person's hair to keep it in place; hairspray.
• "rows of peroxide curls rigid with lacquer"
lacquer
verb
• coat with lacquer.
• "the object was lacquered to protect the finish"
• spray (hair) with hairspray.
Origin:
late 16th century (denoting lac): from obsolete French lacre ‘sealing wax’, from Portuguese laca (see lac1).
