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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.

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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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