japanned, ppl. a.
(dʒəˈpænd)
Also with capital initial.
[f. japan v.]
1. Varnished, lacquered, or adorned with japan or in Japanese style.
| 1693–4 in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 338 The tortoise-shell room, and the japanned room. 1717 Bullock Woman is a riddle i. i. 6 A japan'd cane, and a brush'd beaver. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. II. lv. 305 Their lackt or japon'd Ware is..the best in the World. 1851 Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib. 1356 Specimens of japanned tea-trays. |
b. Polished with blacking.
| 1750 Student I. 93 A white Hand..being the same to a Fiddler as japan'd pumps are to a Dancer. 1848 Thackeray Bk. Snobs Pref. (1892) 3 He wore japanned boots and moustachios. |
2. Made or become Japanese.
| 1889 W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 540 The ‘nice’ drivel of talk in Japanned parlours. 1895 Westm. Gaz. 26 Nov. 7/1 More will be heard later of these japanned Chinese. |
3. japanned leather (see quot. a 1877); japanned peacock, japanned peafowl, the black-winged peafowl, Pavo cristatus mut. nigripennis.
| 1814 R. Heron Jrnl. in Proc. Zool. Soc. (1835) 54 The hens..would not suffer a japanned peacock to touch them. 1851 Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib. iv. 1252/1 Japanned leather, grained calf-skin for boots and shoes, and trimmings. 1855 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. II. 698/2 The Japanned pea-fowl, as it ought to be styled, instead of the Japan pea-fowl. a 1877 Knight Dict. Mech. II. 1211/1 Japanned leather, leather treated with several coats of Japan varnish and dried in a stove. 1894 A. Newton Dict. Birds iii. 699 The ‘japanned’ Peacock, often erroneously named the Japanese or Japan Peacock,..has received the name of P[avo] nigripennis, as though it were a distinct species. Ibid. 701 The ‘japanned’ bird is not known to exist anywhere as a wild race. |