varnished

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She told MPs that this included a “foetal skeleton posed under a glass dome, a human thigh bone turned into a cane, a human jawbone necklace and the varnished skull of a six-year-old”.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2024

A quick way to see whether something is laminated or varnished is to tear it, she explained.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2023

How a star’s public persona, varnished or unvarnished, can dictate what they can get away with in the eye of their followers.

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2023

What began as a modest exercise culminated in a convivial, jovial celebration of a man sitting at a small table, cheering while an applauding, beaming crowd varnished heaps of adoration onto him.

From Salon • Nov. 9, 2022

I remember the carriage, the horse going slowly, and up ahead the back of the driver with his varnished high hat, and Catherine Barkley sitting beside me.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway