• (British) IPA: /vəˈniə(ɹ)/
• (America) IPA: [vɨˈniə̆ɹ]

veneer

1. A thin decorative covering of fine material (usually wood) applied to coarser wood or other material.
2. An attractive appearance that covers or disguises true nature or feelings.
   • 2014 December 5, "Joy From the World ↗," The New York Times Magazine (retrieved 6 December 2014):

     “Yalda,” Dabashi says, “has managed to survive the centuries because it has been gently recodified with a Muslim veneer.”

• French: placage
• German: Furnier
• Italian: impiallacciatura, rivestimento decorativo
• Portuguese: folheado
• Russian: шпон
• Spanish: chapa, chapa de madera, chapeado, contrachapado

• French: vernis
• German: Fassade
• Italian: facciata, mascheratura, copertura, dissimulazione
• Russian: вне́шний лоск
• Spanish: barniz

veneer (veneers, present participle veneering; past and past participle veneered)

1. (transitive, woodworking) To apply veneer to.

   to veneer a piece of furniture with mahogany

2. (transitive, figurative) To disguise#Verb|disguise with apparent goodness.
   • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 2024748 ↗, prologue, page 6 ↗:

     [O]ne / Discuss'd his tutor, rough to common men / But honeying at the whisper of a lord; / And one the Master, as a rogue in grain / Veneer'd with sanctimonious theory.

• French: vernir
• German: furnieren
• Italian: impiallacciare, rivestire, ricoprire, mascherare
• Portuguese: folhear
• Russian: облицовывать
• Spanish: chapar, chapear, enchapar