Noun: veneer
| Singular | veneer |
| Plural | veneers |
Sample Sentences
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Compartment and corridor partitions are of blockboard, with appropriate decorative veneers to suit the varied interior decoration. [1951 May, “British Railways Standard Coaches”, in Railway Magazine, pages 327-328:]
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A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…]. [1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
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“Yalda,” Dabashi says, “has managed to survive the centuries because it has been gently recodified with a Muslim veneer.” [2014 December 5, “Joy From the World”, in The New York Times Magazine, retrieved 06 Dec 2014:]
Nouns inflected like veneer
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From German Furnier, from furnieren (“to inlay, cover with a veneer”), from French fournir (“to furnish, accomplish”), from Middle French fornir, from Old French fornir, furnir (“to furnish”), from Old Frankish frumjan (“to provide”), from Proto-Germanic *frumjaną (“to further, promote”). Cognate with Old High German frumjan, frummen (“to accomplish, execute, provide”), Old English fremian (“to promote, perform”). More at furnish. See: German Nouns '
Furnier', Old English Nouns '
fremian'.