LACQUERWARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lacquerware mean? 

• LACQUERWARE (noun)
  The noun LACQUERWARE has 1 sense:

1. a decorative work made of wood and covered with lacquer and often inlaid with ivory or precious metals

  Familiarity information: LACQUERWARE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LACQUERWARE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A decorative work made of wood and covered with lacquer and often inlaid with ivory or precious metals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("lacquerware" is a kind of...):

piece of work; work (a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lacquerware"):

japan (lacquerware decorated and varnished in the Japanese manner with a glossy durable black lacquer)