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varnishing, vbl. n.|ˈvɑːnɪʃɪŋ|
[f. as prec.]
1. a. The action of applying varnish or of coating anything with varnish.
1505Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. III. 148 For vernesing of x pair sterap irnis. 1536–7Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 697 Cum emendacione lez bossez, et wernysshynge. 1609Bible (Douay) Ecclus. xxxviii. 34 He wil geve his hart to finish the vernishing thereof. 1632Sherwood s.v., A kind of varnishing like to damasking. 1688Stalker (title), Treatise of Japaning and Varnishing, Being a compleat Discovery of those Arts. 1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Japanning, For in this laying it on depends the principal art of varnishing. 1857Miller Elem. Chem., Org. vi. §1. 360 Linseed oil..is also largely employed..in the varnishing of oiled silk. 1885Athenæum 11 July 55/2 It proves to be..untouched except for a little clumsy varnishing.
fig.1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. ii. (1709) 139 Whence comes all Circumvention in Commerce, adulterating of Wares, vouching and varnishing against all good Faith and Honesty?
b. = vernissage. Cf. varnishing day, sense 3.
1951N. Mitford Blessing ii. iv. 188, I was to go round at six, take her to a varnishing, and then dine with her. 1971R. A. Carter Manhattan Primitive vii. 63 Thatcher preferred the French word for openings; ‘varnishings’ were what they usually turned out to be.
2. A coating of varnish. In quot. fig.
1754P. H. Hiberniad iii. 22 These Advantages, however shewy, are but the outward Varnishing of Man.
3. attrib., as varnishing brush; varnishing day (see quot. 1862).
c1825Turner in Westm. Gaz. (1896) 1 May 8/3 When we have no more ‘varnishing’ days we shall not know one another. 1825Sir T. Lawrence in D. E. Williams Life (1831) II. 406 Will you likewise procure a large flat varnishing brush? 1862W. Sandby Hist. R. Acad. Arts I. 274 In the year 1809..the ‘varnishing days’ were appointed, whereby the members of the Academy were granted the privilege of retouching and varnishing their pictures after they were hung, and prior to the opening of the exhibition. 1896Harper's Mag. Apr. 680/2 Varnishing-day came at last. The portrait was received with enthusiasm and given a place of honor. |