Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Finely wrought; elaborate; refined.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Finished with great care; polished.
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Examples
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The portraits of Holbein are of this high-finished manner; and for colouring and similitude what was ever beyond them?
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Over white stockings, below the long and full-bodied skirt, showed the crossed bands of long elastic tapes tied in an ankle bow to hold in place her little slippers of black high-finished leather.
The Covered Wagon Emerson Hough 1890
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What royal cabinet is to be enriched with these high-finished pictures of the arrogance of the sworn enemies of kings and the meek patience of a British administration?
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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Like the high-finished Dutch pictures, mere truth, well and minutely told, makes all its merit. "
The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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I am happy also in testifying mj iMiknowledgments to Mr. Ken*ich, for several high-finished drawings; and for many useful particulars to the late Sir John Cullum (V si fata aapera rum fax Ij who lived not to see the suc - cess of his labours and those of his excellent Coadjutor in my behalf.
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