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Art Director Wisdom #7: Keeping your burnisher collection in a pen jar drives your copywriter crazy. fun!— Adland
The company, which recorded $284 million in sales last year, hopes its efforts in Africa will be a brand-burnisher, too.— BusinessWeek.com --
The parts of the plate that are too light are made darker by rubbing down the surface of the plate with a tool called the burnisher.— The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
These Metals may be diapered, as well as burnished, with an agate-burnisher For Azure_:--_French blue_, freely mixed with Chinese white and a very little gum, the colour to be laid on thick: shade with Prussian blue mixed with a larger proportion of gum.— The Handbook to English Heraldry
155. Then it is put in the vise again and by means of a burnisher, or scraper steel, both of these corners are carefully turned or bent over so as to form a fine burr.— Handwork in Wood

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