Adjective

(en adjective)

Made smooth or shiny by polishing.

* {{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,

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

(er)

Suitable for a royal court; refined, dignified.

* 1598 , , III. ii. 666:

Corin. You have too courtly a wit for me; I’ll rest.

Obsequious, flattering.

(Macaulay)