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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of veneer.

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Examples

  • It was silky, silken, a wonderful silk that veneered and flossed the softly moving, wavy water.

    CHAPTER XXVIII 2010

  • Pens, tape, paint, food, lacquer, Polaroids of his family and other pieces of Roth's intimate life splashed, tacked or veneered to the table tops.

    Marina Cashdan: Exhibition Spotlight: Dieter Roth, Björn Roth, Work Tables & Tischmatten Marina Cashdan 2010

  • This emphasis on veneer over carving characterizes much of Phyfe's later output, and the inclusion of such veneered pieces as an imposing Grecian bedstead and monumental cheval mirror made in 1841 for an important South Carolina client also underscores Phyfe's great popularity in the antebellum South.

    Furniture for a Young Nation Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2012

  • She looked up from her newly shaped behind, perfectly veneered teeth, and severely swollen lips and managed to say to me, "Denise, you crack me up, you are so naïve, what does talent have to do with success?"

    Denise Vivaldo: Tips To Success I Have Learned From My Clients Denise Vivaldo 2011

  • For a Romantic viewer, the tenuous, unpolished, wavering, dappled surface was far more evocative than the veneered and polished surface.

    James Elkins: Using Google Art To Explore Famous, Unfinished Paintings James Elkins 2011

  • There is also Phyfe's own chest of woodcarving tools, its beautifully veneered interior worthy of cabinetry for a front parlor, the elegantly beveled handle of each tool worn to mellow smoothness by years of use.

    Furniture for a Young Nation Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2012

  • It even helps veneered cabinets and such withstand the drying effects of seasonal temp & humidity swings.

    How to Take Care of Leather Furniture 2009

  • Yet while the straight lines and flat veneered panels of Koloman Moser's "Enchanted Princesses Cabinet" 1900 foreshadow a design vocabulary several decades in the future, the long-haired princesses inlaid in marquetry are pure Pre-Raphaelite medievalism, proving that Romantic ideas weren't entirely discarded by the rising generation.

    Modernism's Austrian Rebels Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

  • I started up the first pitch, a rock slab veneered with ice.

    Amid the Perils of Patagonia Michael J. Ybarra 2011

  • She looked up from her newly shaped behind, perfectly veneered teeth, and severely swollen lips and managed to say to me, "Denise, you crack me up, you are so naïve, what does talent have to do with success?"

    Denise Vivaldo: Tips To Success I Have Learned From My Clients Denise Vivaldo 2011

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