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n. A thin surface layer, as of finely grained wood, glued to a base of inferior material.

n. Any of the thin layers glued together to make plywood.

n. A decorative facing, as of brick.

n. A deceptive, superficial show; a façade: a veneer of friendliness.

v. To overlay (a surface) with a thin layer of a fine or decorative material.

v. To glue together (layers of wood) to make plywood.

v. To conceal, as something common or crude, with a deceptively attractive outward show.

n. A thin decorative covering of fine wood applied to coarser wood or other material.

n. An attractive appearance that covers or disguises true nature or feelings.

v. To apply veneer.

v. To overlay or plate with a thin layer of wood or other material for outer finish or decoration. Used also figuratively.

n. A thin leaf or layer of a more valuable or beautiful material for overlaying an inferior one, especially such a thin leaf of wood to be glued to a cheaper wood; hence, external show; gloss; false pretense.

To overlay or face, as an inferior wood, with wood of a finer or more beautiful kind, so as to give the whole the appearance of being made of the more valuable material; cover with veneers: as, to veneer a wardrobe or other article of furniture.

To cover with a thin coating of substance similar to the body, in other materials than wood, as in ceramics.

Hence To impart a more agreeable appearance to, as to something vicious, worthless, or forbidding; disguise with a superficial attraction; gild.

n. A thin piece of wood of a choice kind laid upon another of a more common sort, so as to give a superior and more valuable appearance to the article so treated, as a piece of furniture.

n. A thin coating covering the body of anything, especially for decorative purposes: used when the material of the outer coating is similar to that of the body, as in ceramics or in paper-manufacturing.

n. Show; superficial ornament; meretricious disguise.

n. In entomology, a veneer-moth.

n. coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood

n. an ornamental coating to a building

v. cover with veneer

"They rarely draw the conclusion that the veneer is the most important thing about civilization."

veneered    veneering    veneers   

coating    coat    cover   

veneer-bending machine    veneer-straightening machine    veneer-planing machine    veneer-polishing machine   

veneered    veneering    brick veneer   

gloss    facing    disguise    glossy    face    glows   

Bombardier    Chevalier    Clear    Deere    Fear    Greer    Imagineer    Lanier    Lear    Meir   

façade    patina    paneling    varnish    semblance    pretense    modicum    planking    gloss