piano-polish

English

Verb

piano-polish (third-person singular simple present piano-polishes, present participle piano-polishing, simple past and past participle piano-polished)

  1. To treat (furniture) with piano polish; French-polish.
    • 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 75:
      The papier mâché desk he passed tolerantly as bric-à-brac, but the china-cabinet was dismissed with contempt. "Deal stained black and piano-polished," he said.
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