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- adjective
Polished , madeshiny by rubbing (especially with aburnisher ). - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
burnish .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow
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Examples
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By the time Delvin burnished the last of the tape and pulled the leads down the sun was rising.
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Without doubt, the main burnished piece is the pitcher which holds refreshing drinking water.
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Without doubt, the main burnished piece is the pitcher which holds refreshing drinking water.
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Without doubt, the main burnished piece is the pitcher which holds refreshing drinking water.
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But the Golden Gate Bridge, which opened to pedestrians 70 years ago today -- at 6 a.m. on May 27, 1937 -- is more than an international icon in burnished red.
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I have read a fiery Gospel writ in burnished rows of steel;
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I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
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I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
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"I hereby swear to keep your name burnished bright before all men, and to carry on your cause until the end of my days," she said.
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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"I hereby swear to keep your name burnished bright before all men, and to carry on your cause until the end of my days," she said.
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
knitandpurl commented on the word burnished
"Elsewhere a corner seemed to be reserved for the commoner kinds of lily, of a neat pink or white like rocket-flowers, washed clean like porcelain with housewifely care while, a little farther again, others, pressed close together in a veritable floating flower-bed, suggested garden pansies that had settled here like butterflies and were fluttering their blue and burnished wings over the transparent depths of this watery garden—this celestial garden, too, for it gave the flowers a soil of a color more precious, more moving than their own, and, whether sparkling beneath the water-lilies in the afternoon in a kaleidoscope of silent, watchful, and mobile contentment, or glowing, towards evening, like some distant haven, with the roseate dreaminess of the setting sun, ceaselessly changing yet remaining always in harmony, around the less mutable colours of the flowers themselves, with all that is most profound, most evanescent, most mysterious—all that is infinite—in the passing hour, it seemed to have made them blossom in the sky itself."
-- Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, p 185 of the Vintage International paperback edition
January 1, 2008
ofravens commented on the word burnished
Most far in blue, aloft,
Clouds steered a burnished drift
from "Song for a Summer's Day," Sylvia Plath
April 14, 2008