varnish
/ˈvɑː(ɹ)nɪʃ/ verbo C2En español: barnizar, lacar, corlar, corlear
- To apply varnish.
- To cover up with varnish.
- To make something superficially or deceptively attractive · varnish the report
- To gloss over a defect.
He/she/it varnishes · Pasado varnished · Participio pasado varnished · Forma en -ing varnishing
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“They were tan boots and had never been varnished.
Cavalcanti, dressed in black, like one of Goethe’s heroes, with varnished shoes and white silk open-worked stockings, passed a white and tolerably nice-looking hand through his light hair, and so displayed a sparkling diamond, that in spite of Monte Cristo’s advice the vain young man had been unable to resist putting on his little finger.
He bestowed the same attention upon the cambric front of a shirt, which had considerably changed in color since his entrance into the prison, and he polished his varnished boots with the corner of a handkerchief embroidered with initials surmounted by a coronet.
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