Definition of "varnishings" [varnishings]

• Plural form of varnishing. (noun)

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• "The desks were carved with overlapping slogans and initials, most worn to ghosts by repeated sandings and re-varnishings but never erased completely."
• "Injured by time or obscured by repeated varnishings, they often require some degree of cleaning to make them intelligible."
• "Other men, of less power and penetration than he was — of a less open and piercing glance, searching not only the manifest but the hidden things of dishonesty amidst which he stood — might have been deceived by certain fair appearances in the aspects of Scottish Romanism; but no varnishings and no artifices could beguile him."