veneer

• n. 外観；単板；ベニヤ板；合板の層；単板
• vt.接着する；ベニヤにする；単板にする

フランス語のfornir「提供する」「装飾する」から、語源的にはfurnishと同じ、派生的にはveneer。

veneer

veneer: [17] Veneer is ultimately the same word as furnish. Both come from Old French fournir, but veneer was routed via German, which borrowed fournir as furniren. The verbal noun derived from this, furnirung, was borrowed into English as faneering in the highly specialized sense ‘provision of a thin surface layer of fine wood’. The noun veneer was a back-formation from this.
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veneer (n.)

1702, from German Furnier, from furnieren "to cover with a veneer, inlay," from French fournir "to furnish, accomplish," from Middle French fornir "to furnish," from a Germanic source (compare Old High German frumjan "to provide;" see furnish). From German to French to German to English. Figurative sense of "mere outward show of some good quality" is attested from 1868.

veneer (v.)

1728 (earlier fineer, 1708), from German furnieren (see veneer (n.)). Related: Veneered; veneering.

1. The wood was cut into large sheets of veneer .

木材は大きな板に丸められている。

2.He was able to fool the world with his veneer of education.

彼は良い教育を受けたという名目で世間を欺いている。

3.Her veneer of politeness began to crack.

彼女の礼儀正しい偽装がばれ始めた。

4.For the first time her veneer of politeness began to crack.

彼女の温和で上品な外見に初めてほころびが出た。

5.The panel had a veneer of gold and ivory.

この板には金と象牙が象眼されている。