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.
Noun
veneer (countable and uncountable, plural veneers)
- A thin decorative covering of fine material (usually wood) applied to coarser wood or other material.
1951 May, “British Railways Standard Coaches”, in Railway Magazine, pages 327-328:Compartment and corridor partitions are of blockboard, with appropriate decorative veneers to suit the varied interior decoration.
1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC: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, […].
- An attractive appearance that covers or disguises one's true nature or feelings.
2014 December 5, “Joy From the World”, in The New York Times Magazine, retrieved 6 December 2014:“Yalda,” Dabashi says, “has managed to survive the centuries because it has been gently recodified with a Muslim veneer.”
Translations
thin covering of fine wood
- Bulgarian: фурнир m (furnir)
- Catalan: fullola (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 飾面/饰面 (zh) (shìmiàn)
- Czech: dýha (cs) f
- Danish: finer c
- Dutch: fineer (nl) n
- Esperanto: furniro
- Finnish: viilu (fi)
- French: placage (fr) m, revêtement (fr) m
- Georgian: ფანერა (panera), ფირფიცარი (pirpicari), ჭიქურა (č̣ikura), სარკალა (sarḳala)
- German: Furnier (de) n, Verblendung (de) f
- Greek: επικόλλημα (el) n (epikóllima)
- Hebrew: פורניר (he) m
- Hindi: परत (hi) f (parat)
- Hungarian: furnér (hu), furnérlemez (hu)
- Irish: veinír f
- Italian: impiallacciatura (it), rivestimento decorativo m
- Macedonian: фурнир m (furnir)
- Manx: aachrackan m, aachoodagh m
- Maori: papa tīhore
- Norwegian: finér m
- Persian: روکش (fa) روکش چوبی
- Polish: fornir (pl) m
- Portuguese: folheado (pt) m, laminado (pt) m, lâmina de madeira f
- Russian: шпон (ru) m (špon), односло́йная фане́ра f (odnoslójnaja fanéra)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: фурнир m, оплатица f
- Roman: furnir (sh) m, oplatica (sh) f
- Slovak: dyha (sk) f
- Spanish: chapa (es) f, chapa de madera f, chapeado (es) m, contrachapado m
- Swedish: faner (sv) n
- Turkish: ağaç kaplama (tr), ahşap kaplama, kaplama tahtası
- Welsh: argaen f
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covering or disguising appearance
- Bulgarian: облицовка (bg) f (oblicovka)
- Catalan: vernís (ca)
- Czech: fasáda (cs) f, vnější lesk m, vnější nátěr m
- Finnish: julkisivu (fi)
- French: vernis (fr) m
- Georgian: დაფარვა (daparva), გარეგნობის მიცემა (garegnobis micema)
- German: Fassade (de) f
- Greek: επικόλλημα (el) n (epikóllima), επίχρισμα (el) n (epíchrisma), (metaphorical) επίφαση (el) f (epífasi)
- Hindi: दिखावा (hi) m (dikhāvā), नुमाइश (hi) f (numāiś)
- Hungarian: máz (hu), felszín (hu), külső (hu), külszín (hu), látszat (hu), küllem (hu)
- Italian: facciata (it) f, mascheratura f, copertura (it) f, dissimulazione (it) f
- Norwegian: ferniss (no) n
- Russian: вне́шний лоск m (vnéšnij losk), (somewhat) налёт (ru) m (naljót), (informal, colloquial) показу́ха (ru) f (pokazúxa), ви́димость (ru) f (vídimostʹ)
- Spanish: barniz (es) m
- Swedish: fasad (sv)
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Verb
veneer (third-person singular simple present veneers, present participle veneering, simple past and past participle veneered)
- (transitive, woodworking) To apply veneer to.
to veneer a piece of furniture with mahogany
1947 January and February, “South African Royal Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 36:The stateroom walls are veneered with finely figured English chestnut with the skirting and mouldings in English walnut.
- (transitive, figurative) To disguise with apparent goodness.
1981 December 19, Andrew C. Irish, “Support For Gay Nurses”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 22, page 4:The currently advocated Family Protection Act, which thinly veneers its discriminatory attitudes about strict social conformity and the disallowance of individual choice with a stated concern for today's social fabric.
Translations
to apply veneer
- Bulgarian: фурнировам (furnirovam)
- Catalan: envernissar (ca), recobrir (ca), revestir (ca)
- Czech: dýhovat impf, odýhovat pf
- Danish: finere
- Esperanto: plaki
- Finnish: viiluttaa (fi)
- French: vernir (fr)
- German: furnieren (de), verblenden (de)
- Greek: επικολλώ (el) (epikolló), επιχρίω (el) (epichrío)
- Italian: impiallacciare, rivestire (it), ricoprire (it), mascherare (it)
- Macedonian: обложи (obloži), фурнира (furnira)
- Manx: cur aachrackan er
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: finere
- Portuguese: folhear (pt)
- Russian: облицовывать (ru) (oblicovyvatʹ), придава́ть вне́шний лоск (pridavátʹ vnéšnij losk), маскировать (ru) (maskirovatʹ)
- Spanish: chapar (es), chapear (es), enchapar (es)
- Swedish: fanera (sv)
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