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  • noun Plural form of varnisher.

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Examples

  • Therefore, Mauclerc stated, he is opposed to varnishers 'use of a bain-marie, which prevents the materials from boiling and is used by those who lack any notion of the need for fire in this process.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • No one looked at the pictures any more, but at faces and toilets, seeking out well-known persons; and at times came a great jostling of the crowd as it was forced to give way before the high double ladder of the varnishers, who cried:

    Strong as Death 2003

  • For so soon as any district adopts his permission to stop the Drink Trade, an outcry must arise from local medical men and chemists and varnishers, demanding new shops for their needs: and intense jealousy will follow, lest the new sellers, though called chemists or grocers or oilmen, presently become purveyors of drink; hence a fresh struggle must continue in our overworked Legislature concerning the new and necessary regulations.

    Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking

  • Many of their works are covered with a very inferior quality of varnish, which has caused some confusion respecting the merit due to them as varnishers, they being frequently judged by their inferior instruments, without reference to their good ones.

    The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart

  • The balcony is finished, the bath and lavatory are closed up and waiting for the varnishers.

    Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916

  • Painters, glaziers, | | | | | | varnishers | 10 | 6,807 | 7,372 | -- | 875 | 782 | --

    The Negro at Work in New York City A Study in Economic Progress George Edmund Haynes 1920

  • Painters, glaziers and | | | | | | varnishers | 5,805 | 12,947 | 123.0 | 99 | 177 | 78.8

    The Negro at Work in New York City A Study in Economic Progress George Edmund Haynes 1920

  • "He walked among verbal varnishers and veneerers, among literary milliners and tailors, with the unconscious dignity of an antique god.

    Mince Pie Christopher Morley 1923

  • "I've never seen any one quite so grand -- top hat, latest style, long coat ditto, white buckskin waistcoat, twenty-thousand-dollar pearl in pale blue scarf, white spats, spotless varnish boots just from the varnishers, cream-colored gloves.

    The Deluge David Graham Phillips 1889

  • No one looked at the pictures any more, but at faces and toilets, seeking out well-known persons; and at times came a great jostling of the crowd as it was forced to give way before the high double ladder of the varnishers, who cried: "Make way, Messieurs!

    Strong as Death Guy de Maupassant 1871

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