veneer
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From German Furnier, from furnieren (“to inlay, cover with a veneer”), from French fournir (“to furnish, accomplish”), from Middle French fornir, from Old French fornir, furnir (“to furnish”), from Old Frankish frumjan (“to provide”), from Proto-Germanic *frumjaną (“to further, promote”). Cognate with Old High German frumjan, frummen (“to accomplish, execute, provide”), Old English fremian (“to promote, perform”). More at furnish.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /vəˈnɪə(ɹ)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /vəˈnɪɹ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Noun[edit]
veneer (countable and uncountable, plural veneers)
- A thin decorative covering of fine material (usually wood) applied to coarser wood or other material.
- 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, […].
- An attractive appearance that covers or disguises one's true nature or feelings.
- 2014 December 5, “Joy From the World”, in The New York Times Magazine, retrieved 6 December 2014:
- “Yalda,” Dabashi says, “has managed to survive the centuries because it has been gently recodified with a Muslim veneer.”
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
thin covering of fine wood
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covering or disguising appearance
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Verb[edit]
veneer (third-person singular simple present veneers, present participle veneering, simple past and past participle veneered)
- (transitive, woodworking) To apply veneer to.
- to veneer a piece of furniture with mahogany
- 1947 January and February, “South African Royal Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 36:
- The stateroom walls are veneered with finely figured English chestnut with the skirting and mouldings in English walnut.
- (transitive, figuratively) To disguise with apparent goodness.
- 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Prologue”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 6:
- [O]ne / Discuss'd his tutor, rough to common men / But honeying at the whisper of a lord; / And one the Master, as a rogue in grain / Veneer'd with sanctimonious theory.
Translations[edit]
to apply veneer
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