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Burnished vs Preburnished - What's the difference?

burnished | preburnished |

As adjectives the difference between burnished and preburnished

is that burnished is polished, made shiny by rubbing (especially with a burnisher) while preburnished is burnished in advance.

As a verb burnished

is (burnish).

burnished

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Polished, made shiny by rubbing (especially with a burnisher).
  • *
  • *:The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (burnish)

    • preburnished

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • burnished in advance
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 3, author=Susan Dominus, title=Electing a Woman to the White House: Who’s on Deck?, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Like Hillary, Governor Sebelius’s name comes preburnished , thanks to her father-in-law, Keith Sebelius, a former veteran member of Congress, and her father, John Gilligan, the former governor of Ohio. }}