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  • n  coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood
  • n  the act of applying veneer
  • v  cover with veneer

  • At first a supporter of Woodrow Wilson, he grew scornful of the President's caution, eventually warned his readers: "Beneath the veneering of scholarly polish lies the coiled .
  • Far out!"), the rococo diction ("fribblers" and "cutpurses" abound) and the Augustan bite (asides that wither "the mingy veneering of today's 'lite' architecture").

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