polished
English
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: pol‧ished
Adjective
polished (comparative more polished, superlative most polished)
- Made smooth or shiny by polishing.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess[1]:
- A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].
- polished shoes
- Refined, elegant.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
- "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society."
- a polished performance
- Template:RQ:Vance Nobody
- She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
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Translations
made smooth or shiny by polishing
refined, elegant
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Verb
polished
- simple past and past participle of polish