• (GA) enPR: pŏlʹĭsht, IPA: /ˈpɑlɪʃt/
• (RP) enPR: pŏlʹĭsht, IPA: /ˈpɒlɪʃt/

polished

1. Made smooth or shiny by polishing.

   polished shoes

2. Refined, elegant.

   a polished performance

   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter III, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384 ↗:

     She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.

• French: poli
• German: poliert
• Russian: полиро́ванный

1. Simple past tense and past participle of polish