Noun

(en noun)

(architecture) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp

(figuratively) A place of reverence or honor.

He has put his mother on a pedestal . You can't say a word against her.

(rail transport) A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.

(machining) A pillow block; a low housing.

(bridge building) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.

(steam heating) a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.

Noun

(en noun)

A thin decorative covering of fine wood applied to coarser wood or other material.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].}}

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 .”