Definitions
cover with varnish
Word origin
From Middle English vernisch, vernish, from Old French vernis, from Medieval Latin vernix, veronix, from Byzantine Greek Βερενίκη (Bereníkē, “Berenice”), a town in Cyrenaica, now called Benghazi.
Used in a sentence
“the varnish of the holly and ivy”
“And set a double varnish on the fame / The Frenchman gave you.”
“Every transcontinental but two settled on the simple articulated for freight service, and all of them coupled their varnish to the 4-8-4.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Clear wood finish”7 letters
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