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  • verb Present participle of revarnish.

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Examples

  • After spending the summer sailing and testing the boat out, Mr. Barker then moved the Blue Peter to Cantieri Navale d'Argentario, where craftsmen, shipwrights, deck layers and riggers worked to preserve as much of the original boat as possible, restoring the cockpit and stem to its original design, and revarnishing and repainting the entire vessel.

    For Fixer-Uppers, It's All Hands on Deck Christine Pirovolakis 2011

  • As a result, according to its most recent examiners, there is notable wear to the paint surface, and the painting lacks the colored glazes that were typical of eighteenth-century paintings. 4 The conservators suggest that this may be due to the contemporary practice of applying those colors over a varnish; any color used in this way would have been lost with earlier cleaning or revarnishing treatments.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • So, the restaurant at the base of the building is revarnishing its floors, and unfortunately, my 3rd floor (4th by American counting) flat reeks of varnish, now, thanks to the exhaust pipes in the kitchen and the ventilation in the bathroom, neither of which can be closed off or reversed or something.

    Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2004

  • Central, read the following paper on the best method of testing varnishes to secure the most satisfactory results as to their durability, giving practical suggestions as to the time a car may safely remain in the service before being taken in for revarnishing:

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 Various

  • So that I hold that the master painter on every road should keep a complete and correct record of his cars, and have an opportunity to examine these at intervals and report their condition, in order to have them called in before they are too far gone for revarnishing.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 Various

  • As to the second part of my subject, "What length of time may a car safely remain in service before being taken in for revarnishing?" this must be regulated by the nature of the run and general treatment of the car while in service.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 Various

  • I cannot lay down a standard rule as to the exact time a car should remain in service before being called in for revarnishing, but I find as a general rule with the cars on the Michigan Central Railroad that they should not exceed 12 months 'service, and new cars, or those painted from the foundation, should not be allowed to run over 10 months the first year.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 Various

  • If I was caught writing on a desk, you can bet I would be sanding it and revarnishing it.

    Latest Articles WRCB TV 2010

  • If I was caught writing on a desk, you can bet I would be sanding it and revarnishing it.

    Latest Articles WRCB TV 2010

  • This is the year for revarnishing the floorboards of the trusty lugger.

    YBW News 2009

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