Veneer

Definitions

1. A thin decorative covering of fine material (usually wood) applied to coarser wood or other material.
   countable, uncountable
2. An attractive appearance that covers or disguises one's true nature or feelings, the veneer of culture.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Compartment and corridor partitions are of blockboard, with appropriate decorative veneers to suit⟳ the varied interior decoration.”

“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.””

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