French-polished

The finishing room is where completed pieces are sanded, lacquered, French-polished and buffed.

Against the grain: Keith Fritz left the path to the priesthood to create divine furniture 2010

The immediate ancestors of vinyl LPs, these 78 rpm records were playable on the 1918 spring-wound, French-polished mahogany Victrola I had bought for eight bucks at a local antique shop.

Wax in My Ears: An Online Journey 2008

Veneering, once their traveller or commission agent: who had signalized his accession to supreme power by bringing into the business a quantity of plate-glass window and French-polished mahogany partition, and a gleaming and enormous doorplate.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

In one corner a young, black-haired woman was holding court on the trials and tribulations of having her nails French-polished.

California Dreaming Lawrence Donegan 2002

In one corner a young, black-haired woman was holding court on the trials and tribulations of having her nails French-polished.

California Dreaming Lawrence Donegan 2002

The whole tribe were sitting round a truly imposing Edwardian dining table of old French-polished mahogany, their chairs newer, nineteen-thirtyish, like the grandstands themselves.

Decider Francis, Dick 1993

You see, we don't go in for show so much as they do down south; we say there's real old oak up here, and French-polished deal down there. '

Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin

They were French-polished, and in appearance convenient as well as handsome, but in reality too small to hold my clothes.

The Doll and Her Friends or Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina Unknown

Your self-made man, whittled into shape with his own jack-knife, deserves more credit, if that is all, than the regular engine-turned article, shaped by the most approved pattern, and French-polished by society and travel.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various

French-polished mahogany cover, looking from place to place.

Witness to the Deed George Manville Fenn 1870