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unburnished

ADJECTIVE
  1. of metals e.g.; not made shiny and smooth by friction

How To Use unburnished In A Sentence

  • It was not calculation but humility - together with his understanding that it is preferable not to rust unburnished but to shine in use - that gave him another lease on life.
  • Ulysses cannot abide the idleness of age and continues to reflect: "How dull it is to pause, to make an end, / To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! Peter Davis: Milestone or Millstone?
  • His recollections are more striking for being so understated and unburnished. Times, Sunday Times
  • The inventory of 1700 describes 'its wooden frame gilded with unburnished gold'.
  • In northern European paintings matt, unburnished gilding is also found and contracts may specify which areas are to be burnished and which are to be matt.
  • I rather think of Ted Kennedy, working phones from his sickbed to garner support for his lifelong cause of healthcare for all Americans, as scorning to rust unburnished. Archive 2009-08-23
  • His gift is to turn unburnished material into observational gold. Times, Sunday Times
  • Tennyson was right, to rust unburnished was inconceivably dull. The Forgotten Garden
  • It was unburnished gray - aluminum or magnesium, by its light weight - and smoothly streamlined.
  • Nymphs and satyrs in Florentine bronze smirked and capered in the recesses of the pale gray wall, relieved by mouldings and medallions in unburnished gold.
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