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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
lacker .
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Examples
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As to floors, the only really clean floor I know is the Berlin lackered floor, which is wet rubbed and dry rubbed every morning to remove the dust.
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Abner Dimock was handsome, agreeable, gentlemanly to a certain lackered extent; -- who had cared for Hitty, in all her life, enough to aid and counsel her as he had already done?
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I had no liking for her lackered countenance, and that she was a mahogany-coloured, slave-driving, old curmudgeon, that in England would be shown about at the fairs for a penny a peep.
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They made cups and vases of a lackered or painted wood, impervious to wet, and gaudily coloured.
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Riders you saw few; but the elegant carriages of the Emigrants, many-coloured, lackered, gilt and silvered, evidently by the best builders, caught your eye.
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Do not countenance them, thou there: turn away from their lackered sumptuosities, their belauded sophistries, their serpent graciosities, their spoken and acted cant, with a sacred horror, with an _Apage Satanas.
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London; he appeared with corazza-shirts, lackered boots, and perfumery; he bought a blood-horse from Bob Toffy: was seen at archery meetings, public breakfasts, -- actually at cover; and, I blush to say, that I saw him in a stall at the Opera; and afterwards riding by Lady Fanny's side in Rotten Row.
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Frenchmen, with their lackered mustaches and trim varnished boots -- at the English dandies, Pen among them, with their calm domineering air, and insolent languor: and envied each one of these some excellence or quality of youth, or good looks which he possessed, and of which
The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy
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Some of the trunks which were covered with lackered leather and full of brass nails, excited his astonishment, and indeed proved a fund of amusement for the natives on all the road.
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Proved a mere lackered article -- showy, no doubt,
The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes
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