Lacquer

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–noun 

1. a protective coating consisting of a resin (樹脂), cellulose (纖維素) ester (酯), or both, dissolved in a volatile solvent, sometimes with pigment added.

2. any of various resinous varnishes (亮光漆), esp. a resinous varnish obtained from a Japanese tree, Rhus verniciflua, used to produce a highly polished, lustrous surface on wood or the like.

3. Also called lacquer ware, esp. of wood, coated with such a varnish, and often inlaid: They collected fine Oriental lacquers. 

4. Slang. any volatile solvent that produces euphoria when inhaled. 



inlay 

–verb (used with object) 

1. to decorate (an object) with layers of fine materials set in its surface: to inlay a [chest] with lighter wood.  



–verb (used with object) 

5. to coat with lacquer.

6. to cover, as with facile or fluent words or explanations cleverly worded, etc.; obscure the faults of; gloss (often fol. by over): The speech tended to lacquer [over] the [terrible] conditions.  



Also, lacker. 





　

Chabrol and De Palma are often cited as the directors most influenced by Hitchcock. 



Consider the scene in this film where Charles takes Gabrielle to an exclusive private club and asks her to follow him down a corridor. For what purpose? We know it must be sexual, but Chabrol never shows us. This is the Hitchcock technique of building curiosity by deferring action. 



(Bomb explodes under table equals action. Bomb is under table but it doesn't explode equals suspense.) 



I was also reminded of the brothel client's little lacquered box in Bunuel's "Belle de Jour." By never showing us what it contains, he generates enormous erotic curiosity.





calcification

mortar

plaster

and there is a Wall of Shame [plastered] with the photos of the girls back home who have dumped them.  

gelatinous

The leaves are covered with gelatinous [ooze]. Whatever the trouble is, it's everywhere.

gluttony

glutinous 

viscous

that viscous [stew] of naïveté, insecure leader-lust, psychotic self-righteousness, and [medieval] imbecility?



stodgy

a stodgy Victorian [novel]

a stodgy business [suit]

Depp's leisurely quest leads through a [posh], [stodgy] landscape of libraries, lecture halls, and back-alley biblio [troves] atingle [with] hissed warnings

resin

amber

The members of the Sally Fowler Rat Pack, by contrast, are [preserved] in amber

Smock