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Japan

noun

1.

A string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean. Synonyms: Japanese Archipelago, Japanese Islands.

2.

A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building. Synonyms: Nihon, Nippon.

3.

Lacquerware decorated and varnished in the Japanese manner with a glossy durable black lacquer.

4.

Lacquer with a durable glossy black finish, originally from the orient.

verb

(past & past part. japanned; pres. part. japanning)

1.

Coat with a lacquer, as done in Japan.

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— The Englishman and Other Poems • Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... of the languid Italian was the home also of the sternest race of whom the story of mankind retains a record. And again, when we are told that the Spaniards are superstitious, because Spain is a country of earthquakes, we remember Japan, the spot in all the world where earthquakes are most frequent, and where at the same time there is the most serene disbelief ...

— Short Studies on Great Subjects • James Anthony Froude

... like some of the inland kingdoms of the continent, or the barbarous empire of Japan, without commerce, without alliances, without taxes, and without competition with other nations; did we depend only on the product of our own soil to support us, and the strength of our own arms to defend us, without any intercourse with distant ...

— The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 11. - Parlimentary Debates II. • Samuel Johnson

... discovered by the Hollanders, the evidence is that New England was not known; because the Dutch East India Company then sought a passage by the west, through which to sail to Japan and China; and if New England had been then discovered, they would not have sought a passage there, knowing it to be the main land; just as when New Netherland and New England did become known, such a passage was sought no longer through them, but farther to the north through Davis ...

— Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 • Jasper Danckaerts

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