All 5 Uses of
veneer
in
Gone with the Wind
- She had the easily stirred passions of her Irish father and nothing except the thinnest veneer of her mother's unselfish and forbearing nature.†
Chpt 1.3 *
- Ellen never fully realized that it was only a veneer, for Scarlett always showed her best face to her mother, concealing her escapades, curbing her temper and appearing as sweet-natured as she could in Ellen's presence, for her mother could shame her to tears with a reproachful glance.†
Chpt 1.3
- But Mammy was under no illusions about her and was constantly alert for breaks in the veneer.†
Chpt 1.3
- There was something exciting about this town with its narrow muddy streets, lying among rolling red hills, something raw and crude that appealed to the rawness and crudeness underlying the fine veneer that Ellen and Mammy had given her.†
Chpt 2.8
- With the Republicans in the political saddle the town entered into an era of waste and ostentation, with the trappings of refinement thinly veneering the vice and vulgarity beneath.†
Chpt 5.49
Definition:
a thin layer of anything added to make something look better; or a thin layer of better wood glued to a base of inferior wood