veneering
- 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").