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Definition of Veneer

Veneer To overlay or plate with a thin layer of wood or other material for outer finish or decoration; as, to veneer a piece of furniture with mahogany. Used also figuratively. A thin leaf or layer of a more valuable or beautiful material for overlaying an inferior one, especially such a thin leaf of wood to be glued to a cheaper wood; hence, external show; gloss; false pretense. Related Definitions: Also, An, As, Be, Beautiful, Decoration, Especially, External, False, Finish, For, Furniture, Gloss, Glued, Hence, Inferior, Layer, Leaf, Mahogany, Material, More, Of, One, Or, Other, Outer, Overlay, Overlaying, Piece, Plate, Pretense, Show, Such, Thin, To, Used, Valuable, Veneer, With, Wood

Veneer Quotations It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. George Santayana Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. Honore De Balzac After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface. Edward Hopper I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer. John McGahern There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything. George Washington Carver

Veneer Translations veneer in French is placage veneer in German is Furnier veneer in Spanish is chapa veneer in Swedish is faner, fernissa

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