7 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
noun a coating that provides a hard, lustrous, transparent finish to a surface
verb cover with varnish
originFrom Middle English vernisch, vernish, from Old French vernis, from Medieval Latin vernix, veronix, from Byzantine Greek Βερενίκη (Bereníkē, “Berenice”), a town in Cyrenaica, now called Benghazi.
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