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Use "varnishings" in a sentence
"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."