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burnish VB

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صَقَلَ
burnish
لَمَّعَ
burnish
جَلَى

burnish N

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burnish
لُمْعَة

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Vessels are often coarse, tempered with grit or sand, burnished to a shiny finish and made with a variety of clays in different areas.
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Next burnish with a burnishing tool of choice, metal burnisher, bowl of a teaspoon or the edge of a bone folder.
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The ware is then quickly burnished with a soft cloth before the water in the terra sigillata soaks into the porous body.
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The floors were layered with white plaster with plastered and even burnished walls.
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The first is thick walled, with a high foot and red slip (sometimes burnished), most often shaped as bowls.
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This process formed stories that were told and retold, burnished and added to by professional poets and saga-tellers.
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Burnishing a piece of satin glass will polish the satin finish away, leaving a glossy spot and greatly reducing the value as a collectable.
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Fragments of jars and burnished vessels may suggest that there was a small-scale occupation.
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She dedicated the remaining years of her life to burnishing his legacy.
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To put a finish on the pieces, the makers burnished them or used a sintering process.
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