Obs. Also 8 finnier. [early form of VENEER.] = VENEER. lit. and fig. Hence Fineered ppl. a.; Fineering vbl. sb.
1708. New View of London, I. 98/2. The Communion Table is neatly Finnierd.
1716. Prot. Mercury, 18 May, 6. Chests of Drawers … of the Newest Fashion and best Fineer’d Work in Walnut-Tree.
1778. R. Tickell, The Wreath of Fashion, 97.
| With chips of wit, and mutilated lays, | |
| See Palmerston fineer his Bout’s Rhimeès. |
1780. Descr. Tunbridge Wells, 11. The yew especially is of late become very fashionable, and the goods fineered with it are certainly excessively pretty.
1781. Hayley, Tri. Temper, II. 144.
| Thus our young lord, with fashion’s phrase refin’d, | |
| Fineer’d the mean interior of his mind. |
1832. Gell, Pompeiana, II. 74. This sort of fineering with rare marbles must have always excited the avidity of the survivors after the fatal catastrophe.
