BURNISHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does burnished mean? 

• BURNISHED (adjective)
  The adjective BURNISHED has 1 sense:

1. made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow

  Familiarity information: BURNISHED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BURNISHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow

Synonyms:

bright; burnished; lustrous; shining; shiny

Context example:

shiny black patents

Similar:

polished (perfected or made shiny and smooth)

 Context examples 

The setting sun cast a ruddy glare upon his burnished arms, and sent his long black shadow streaming behind him up the level clearing.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On it stood a silver tray of smokables and a burnished spirit-stand, from which and an adjacent siphon my silent host proceeded to charge two high glasses.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was very clean and neat: the ornamental windows were hung with little white curtains; the floor was spotless; the grate and fire-irons were burnished bright, and the fire burnt clear.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Others polished the blade until all the rust was removed and it glistened like burnished silver.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been standing smiling on the door-step.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To me he was unweariedly kind, and always glad to see me in the galley, which he kept as clean as a new pin, the dishes hanging up burnished and his parrot in a cage in one corner.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Then he called his daughter and the children, then the apprentices, girls and boys, and they all ran up the street to look at the bird, and saw how splendid it was with its red and green feathers, and its neck like burnished gold, and eyes like two bright stars in its head.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)