lacquerware; lacquered item
Refers to objects coated with lacquer (urushi), including traditional Japanese lacquerware. Also used more broadly for painted or coated items.
This lacquered tray was handed down from my grandmother.
At the exhibition, beautiful lacquerware bowls were on display.
Standard spelling with okurigana.
Variant without okurigana; less common but still used.
Compound of 塗り (nuri, 'painting, coating', the continuative form of 塗る nuru 'to paint, to coat') + 物 (mono, 'thing'). Literally 'coated thing'.