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  • Apparently, he was frustrated by the sound of his tenor sax -- which had changed since it was relacquered.

    Two '80s Film Flashbacks 2009

  • Shot and shell, after having been piled, are to be so far examined in the first week of June in each year as to ascertain if they require to be cleaned, relacquered, and repiled to secure their proper preservation; and their condition reported to the Bureau, that if any work upon them is necessary it may be finished during the warm months of the year, when the lacquer can be best applied.

    Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

  • Misery suggested to the agent that they could be cleaned and relacquered, which would make them equal to new: in fact, they would be better than new ones, for such things as these were not made now, and for once Misery was telling the truth.

    The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell 1890

  • You'd have to dismantle the entire chair, have the lacquer completely removed from the aluminum pieces, have the metal cleaned and polished, then entirely relacquered and the chair reassembled.

    Apartment Therapy Main Janel Laban 2010

  • I took it to the antique shop to be relacquered last week, which is too bad, because it really looks nice hanging over the mantle next to the hand-carved wooden duck decoys.

    The Onion 2010

  • Persistence helped Steponkus recently score a vintage bamboo dining set - six chairs, table, sideboard and bar - for $400, which she relacquered to be spotlighted in a designer show house.

    unknown title 2009

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