varnished

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She told MPs that this included a “foetal skeleton posed under a glass dome, a human thigh bone turned into a cane, a human jawbone necklace and the varnished skull of a six-year-old”.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2024

A quick way to see whether something is laminated or varnished is to tear it, she explained.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2023

Villagers instituted lay church caretakers called “mayordomos,” and filled chapels with elaborate altarpieces made of local wood and varnished with pine sap.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 29, 2023

What began as a modest exercise culminated in a convivial, jovial celebration of a man sitting at a small table, cheering while an applauding, beaming crowd varnished heaps of adoration onto him.

From Salon • Nov. 9, 2022

Framed photographs of her parents on the bureau, poems framed on the walls, and her closet— everything in its place, the floor varnished, and her shoes standing diligently side by side.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck