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Definitions
Etymologies
- Middle English burnishen, from Old French burnir, burniss-, variant of brunir, from brun, shining, of Germanic origin; see bher-2 in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“By the time Delvin burnished the last of the tape and pulled the leads down the sun was rising.”
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“Without doubt, the main burnished piece is the pitcher which holds refreshing drinking water.”
“But the Golden Gate Bridge, which opened to pedestrians 70 years ago today -- at 6 a.m. on May 27, 1937 -- is more than an international icon in burnished red.”
“I have read a fiery Gospel writ in burnished rows of steel;”
“I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:”
“I hereby swear to keep your name burnished bright before all men, and to carry on your cause until the end of my days," she said.”
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles
“I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel;”
“The landscape was a bit of palette knife work where I had to let the paint set up for a few hours and then kind of burnished it down-it's still very textural.”
“But nothing so arrests our speech when we are tempted to betray hidden trouble as to find ourselves face to face with a kind of burnished, radiant happiness.”
“This trend will take on an exotic, safari feel thanks to the details in the wooden beading and metallic details, such as burnished coins and belts.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘burnished’.
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words to describe everything GOLD
emotions, reactions, senses, how do we feel when we wear gold, generational, memories,
Sensual, illuminated, history, intricate, classic, bright, luxe, sparkly, splashy, metallic, perfection, gilt and 30 more...
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GRE
abase, broach, brocade, burgeon, bungle, bureaucracy, burly, burnished, browbeat, brusque, bucolic, buffoonery and 20 more...
ofravens Most far in blue, aloft,
Clouds steered a burnished drift
from "Song for a Summer's Day," Sylvia Plath Apr 14, 2008
knitandpurl "Elsewhere a corner seemed to be reserved for the commoner kinds of lily, of a neat pink or white like rocket-flowers, washed clean like porcelain with housewifely care while, a little farther again, others, pressed close together in a veritable floating flower-bed, suggested garden pansies that had settled here like butterflies and were fluttering their blue and burnished wings over the transparent depths of this watery garden—this celestial garden, too, for it gave the flowers a soil of a color more precious, more moving than their own, and, whether sparkling beneath the water-lilies in the afternoon in a kaleidoscope of silent, watchful, and mobile contentment, or glowing, towards evening, like some distant haven, with the roseate dreaminess of the setting sun, ceaselessly changing yet remaining always in harmony, around the less mutable colours of the flowers themselves, with all that is most profound, most evanescent, most mysterious—all that is infinite—in the passing hour, it seemed to have made them blossom in the sky itself."
-- Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, p 185 of the Vintage International paperback edition Jan 1, 2008