veneerings

Mosaic and carving, sumptuous altars and tombs, veneerings and inlays of colored marble, broad flat surfaces to be covered with painting and ornament -- to secure these they were content to build crudely, to tie their insufficiently buttressed vaults with unsightly iron tie-rods, and to make their church façades mere screen-walls, in form wholly unrelated to the buildings behind them.

A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890

Like a parlor center - table, it stood full in the middle of the quarter-deck, radiant with brazen stars, and variegated with diamond-shaped veneerings of mahogany and satin wood.

Redburn. His First Voyage Herman Melville 1855

_glass-veneerings_, beautifully painted and shaded, so as to resemble different-tinted woods, tortoise-shell, or indeed any other colors that may be desired.

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 Various