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Definitioner
Substantiv
- A thin decorative covering of fine wood applied to coarser wood or other material.
- An attractive appearance that covers or disguises true nature or feelings.
Verb
- (woodworking) To apply veneer.
- (figurative) To disguise with apparent goodness.
Exempel
- 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, […].
- “Yalda,” Dabashi says, “has managed to survive the centuries because it has been gently recodified with a Muslim veneer.”
- to veneer a piece of furniture with mahogany
- As a rogue in grain / Veneered with sanctimonious theory.
- A veneer of respectability.
- Un vernis de respectabilité.
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