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Definition
polish and make shiny — especially metal
or more generally: to improve something — especially the impression that something makes
or more generally: to improve something — especially the impression that something makes
- Some at their backs their gilded quivers bore; Their chains of burnish'd gold hung down before.Book 5 (64% in)
- Then wakeful Palinurus rose, to spy The face of heav'n, and the nocturnal sky; And listen'd ev'ry breath of air to try; Observes the stars, and notes their sliding course, The Pleiads, Hyads, and their wat'ry force; And both the Bears is careful to behold, And bright Orion, arm'd with burnish'd gold.Book 3 (71% in)
- Nor did his eyes less longingly behold The girdle-belt, with nails of burnish'd gold.Book 9 (44% in)
There are no more uses of "burnish" in The Aeneid.
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