burnish• Way at the front end of the house red light came pouring through the tunnel and showed the lakeburnished and menacing.• All the valve and operatingfittings for the above locos were completed and burnished by hand at Wolverton Works BrassShop.• For nearly three years President Clinton has carefully burnished his crime-fighter credentials.• But we have trouble seeing them for what they really are because of the imagesburnished into our consciousness by movie-makers.• Some long shotsburnished their chances, some favourites lost ground.
Originburnish
(1300-1400)Old Frenchbrunir“to make brown, cause to shine”, from brun“brown”