shellac
noun
1 shellac
Lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white.
Polish: szelak
2 shellac
A thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood.
synonym: shellac varnish.
Dutch: schellak
verb
1 shellac
Cover with shellac:
— She wanted to shellac the desk to protect it from water spots.
synonym: shellack.
Moby thesaurus: apply paint, beat, bedaub, bedizen, begild, besmear, blank, brush on paint, bulldoze, calcimine, clobber, coat, color, complexion, cover, cream, dab, daub, deep-dye, defeat utterly ... show more.
shellacking
Moby thesaurus: beating, calcimining, clobbering, coating, covering, crushing defeat, debacle, decisive defeat, defeasance, drubbing, enameling, fresco, gilding, glazing, glossing, japanning, licking, no contest, overthrow, overwhelming defeat ... show more.
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