varnishment

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act or process of embellishing something in order to make it more attractive. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — The print of my finger thou hast defaced, and with arts-vanishing varnishment made thyself a changeling from the form I first cast thee in; Satan take her to thee, with black boiling pitch rough-cast over her counterfeit red and white; and whereas she was wont in ass's milk to bathe her to engrain her skin more gentle, pliant, delicate and supple, in bubbling scalding lead, and fatty flame-feeding brimstone see thou unceasingly bathe her.

词形变化

varnishments plural

词源

From varnish + -ment.
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