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piano-polish

piano-polish verb: to treat (furniture) with piano polish; French-polish.

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.
    • 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.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 75

Forms of piano-polish

third-person singular presentpiano-polishes
present participlepiano-polishing
past participlepiano-polished
pastpiano-polished

Questions about piano-polish

What does piano-polish mean?
Piano-polish means to treat (furniture) with piano polish; French-polish.
What part of speech is piano-polish?
Piano-polish is a verb.
What is the past tense of piano-polish?
The past tense of piano-polish is piano-polished.

Words near piano-polish in the dictionary

  1. piano wire
  2. piano-forte
  3. piano-fortes
  4. piano-forté
  5. piano-fortés
  6. piano-polish
  7. piano-polished
  8. piano-polishes
  9. piano-polishing
  10. piano-violin
  11. piano-violins

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