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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
veneered
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Made from solid oak with veneered interiors, the wood has been limed to enhance the grain.
▪ There was also a badly scratched veneered cabinet which had once housed a gramophone.
▪ These apparently were made in veneered chipboard and would cost me £24 50.
▪ This 600 watt machined removed three layers of old paint from a veneered cabinet in minutes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Veneered

Veneer \Ve*neer"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Veneered; p. pr. & vb. n. Veneering.] [G. furnieren, fourniren, fr. F. fournir to furnish. See Furnish.] 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.

As a rogue in grain Veneered with sanctimonious theory.
--Tennyson.

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veneered

vb. (en-past of: veneer)

Usage examples of "veneered".

As for himself, he handled only the big cases in which he veneered the dirty work by a sort of finesse.

Everything seems to have moved uptown lately, to have been veneered over to meet the fastidious second decade of the twentieth century.

The dashboard was veneered in walnut and there was an array of small spanners and screwdrivers and a pen-shaped flashlight as well as a large coloured medallion of the shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

The sound of waves pounding against the hull changed to the noise of water rushing past it, and a large patch of sunlight raced across the veneered bulkhead as Stinnes turned the wheel and headed the boat out to the open sea.

Blake's cabin, built of ship timber and veneered with blocks of ice, was built in the face of a deep pit that sheltered it from wind and storm.

She vanished into the veneered cubicle and emerged with the suede bag that held Kumiko's toilet things.