- lacquer (n.)
- 1570s as "dye obtained from lac;" 1670s as "lacquer," from obsolete French lacre, name for a kind of sealing wax, from Portuguese lacre, unexplained variant of lacca "resinous substance," from Arabic lakk, from Persian lak (see lac).
- lacquer (v.)
- "cover or coat with laqueur," 1680s, from lacquer (n.). Related: Lacquered; lacquering.