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)

(of a person or a manner of speaking) Fluent or having a ready flow of speech; garrulous or loquacious; tonguey.

* , Love's Labour's Lost , act 3, scene 1:

A most acute juvenal; voluble and free of grace!

* 1853 , , Villette , ch. 19:

What fun shone in his eyes as he recalled some of her fine speeches, and repeated them, imitating her voluble delivery!

* 1904 , , The Sea Wolf , ch. 26:

But Wolf Larsen seemed voluble , prone to speech as I had never seen him before.

Expressed readily or at length and in a fluent manner.

* 1886 , , The Minister's Charge , ch. 6:

[H]e heard the voice of the drunken woman, now sober, poured out in voluble' remorse, and in ' voluble promise of amendment for the future, to every one who passed, if they would let her off easy.

* 1910 , , "The Reticence of Lady Anne" in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches :

As a rule Lady Anne's displeasure became articulate and markedly voluble after four minutes of introductory muteness.

* 1922 , , Ulysses , Episode 9:

In the daylit corridor he talked with voluble pains of zeal.

Easily rolling or turning; having a fluid, undulating motion.

* 1935 , , Zulu Paraclete: A Sentimental Record , Peter Davies, page 22:

Seen from the west, their sky-line gallops away north and south like a sea-serpent in voluble motion.

(botany) Twisting and turning like a vine.