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Definition of: Coromandel lacquer
A type of Chinese lacquerwork in which the design is cut in intaglio and completed with varied colors and gold: so called because objects thus decorated were imported into western Europe by East India merchants with headquarters on the Coromandel Coast.
(def. 4b)
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