LekhoriLekhoriA thin decorative covering of fine material (usually wood) applied to coarser wood or other material.
Compartment and corridor partitions are of blockboard, with appropriate decorative veneers to suit the varied interior decoration.
An attractive appearance that covers or disguises one's true nature or feelings, the veneer of culture.
“Yalda,” Dabashi says, “has managed to survive the centuries because it has been gently recodified with a Muslim veneer.”
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 Ol...
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[O]ne / Discuss'd his tutor, rough to common men / But honeying at the whisper of a lord; / And one the Master, as a rogue in grain / Veneer'd with sanctimonious theory.