Definition of "shellacs" [shellacs]

• Plural form of shellac. (noun)

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• "When rating shellacs, we look at shine, of course, and at ease of application."
• "Beneath a carpet of dust atop a bookshelf in the bedroom, I've got a portable turntable that will play 78s and a small luggage case full of naked shellacs."
• "I began this retrospective, Volume XV of "The Welte Mignon Mystery" series, with those inscriptions Edvard Grieg made 17 April 1906 and here reproduced on the modern Steinway in stereo - such a tonic after the scratchy, well-nigh acoustically impossible shellacs he cut that had appeared on Pearl."