Sentence examples for veneering from inspiring English sources

The introduction of veneering coincided with the use of walnut as a furniture wood.

New processes appeared, notably veneering wide surfaces with thin sheets of wood into which floral patterns in marquetry often were inserted.

Because of their preference for ebony, the French masters of the craft of veneering were known as ébénistes, although they later combined veneering with technical variations such as marquetry.

Marquetry, inlay, veneering, and lacquerwork were all skillfully applied to the decorative furniture of Queen Anne design.

Veneering allows the use of beautiful woods that because of limited availability, small size, or difficulty in working cannot be used in solid form for making furniture.

Whether veneering Flemish-bond brickwork onto a dowdy East Side brownstone or filling out an heirloom tea set, knickerbocker blue bloods favored Colonial Revival's hereditary restraint as a snub to arriviste ostentation.

The social-climbing Veneerings.

Timson's voices for the kaleidoscope of characters, from the dolls' dressmaker to the false friends of the moneyed Veneerings, are the best of the best.

The Veneerings' awful dinner parties, or the love affairs where both participants wonder whether they are quite up to the mark, or the Lammles' getting married in the misguided belief that the other has money – these are all wonderful, extreme examples of what the sociologist Erving Goffman was later to call "the presentation of self in everyday life".

The satisfying conclusion to Gardam's "Old Filth" trilogy opens with the deaths of the rivals who dominated the previous novels — Sir Edward Feathers and Sir Terence Veneering.

After Fiscal-Smith exits in a huff, Gardam abruptly switches time and place to fill in the back story of Terence Veneering, Filth's longtime professional and romantic rival in Hong Kong and later his neighbor and chess buddy in Dorset.