Adjective

(en adjective)

Made smooth or shiny by polishing.

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, 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,

Refined, elegant.

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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.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; friendly, courteous, sociable.

* 1912 : James Burrill Angell, , chapter ix "Mission To The Ottoman Empire"

Furthermore, I may say, that the Sultan was always most affable to me in my interviews with him, even when I had to discuss some missionary questions. In fact, I never saw any traces of the difficulties which Mr. Terrell reported.

Mild; benign.

* 1998 : Alexia Maria Kosmider, Tricky Tribal Discourse , page 84

During more affable weather, the four friends congregate outside, sometimes leaning their hickory chairs against a "catapa" tree...