Lakdoek

English translation: varnished cloth

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Dutch term or phrase:Lakdoek
English translation:varnished cloth
Entered by: Joost Simons

08:58 Sep 27, 2007
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Materials (Plastics, Ceramics, etc.) / Chain guards
Dutch term or phrase: Lakdoek
De aloude omafiets heeft vaak een kettingbeschermer van 'lakdoek'. Weet iemand of er een speciale Engelse term voor dit materiaal is? Of is simpelweg 'lacquered cloth' de beste optie?
Joost Simons
Local time: 12:54
varnished cloth
Explanation:
... is the term I'm familiar with (used for the airframe skins of vintage aircraft, and still used for model aircraft, due to the ideal combination of strength, stiffness and light weight)

sample refs:

Doolittle wins in Baltimore: the US takes its second Schneider Cup ...
Its circular wooden monocoque fuselage, covered with varnished cloth, ... The U.S. Government funded the Curtiss Airplane Company and its primary competitor ...
goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-4811777/Doolittle-wins-in-Baltimore-the.html

aircraft camouflage in World War One
The upper surfaces were a single dark colour usually a green or brown, and the under-surfaces were varnished cloth. The forward fuselage area around the ...
www.century-of-flight.net/Aviation history/airplane at war/...

The Pioneers : An Anthology : Armand-Jean-Auguste Deperdussin ( c ...
... designed for him the most advanced racing airplane of the pre-war years. ... it was covered with three-ply sheets of tulip wood and varnished cloth to ...
www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/deperdussin.html
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Ken Cox
Local time: 12:54
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varnished cloth


Explanation:
... is the term I'm familiar with (used for the airframe skins of vintage aircraft, and still used for model aircraft, due to the ideal combination of strength, stiffness and light weight)

sample refs:

Doolittle wins in Baltimore: the US takes its second Schneider Cup ...
Its circular wooden monocoque fuselage, covered with varnished cloth, ... The U.S. Government funded the Curtiss Airplane Company and its primary competitor ...
goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-4811777/Doolittle-wins-in-Baltimore-the.html

aircraft camouflage in World War One
The upper surfaces were a single dark colour usually a green or brown, and the under-surfaces were varnished cloth. The forward fuselage area around the ...
www.century-of-flight.net/Aviation history/airplane at war/...

The Pioneers : An Anthology : Armand-Jean-Auguste Deperdussin ( c ...
... designed for him the most advanced racing airplane of the pre-war years. ... it was covered with three-ply sheets of tulip wood and varnished cloth to ...
www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/deperdussin.html

Ken Cox
Local time: 12:54
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16
Grading comment
Thanks for your help!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Mark Shimmin: Japanned or lacquered could also be used perhaps but like the bike are a bit antiquated
1 hr
  -> 'japanned' in conjunction with cloth is indeed antiquated (there are google hits for it, but I've only seen it in practice in connection with metal finishes), and 'lacquered' is also an option; IMO 'varnished' is more common
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