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French polish

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French polish
Noun
a shellac varnish for wood, giving a high gloss
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Noun1.French polishFrench polish - the glaze produced by repeated applications of French polish shellac
burnish, glossiness, polish, gloss - the property of being smooth and shiny
2.French polish - a varnish for wood consisting of shellac dissolved in alcohol
French polish shellac
shellac varnish, shellac - a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood
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In a lofty room, ill-lighted and worse ventilated, situated in Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, there sit nearly the whole year round, one, two, three, or four gentlemen in wigs, as the case may be, with little writing-desks before them, constructed after the fashion of those used by the judges of the land, barring the French polish.
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