Noun : The play has a varnish of witty dialogue.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : to varnish the truth.    From Dictionary.com. 

It's no crime to work hard she's a varnisher; he's a captain now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carnies] Reference

Poor Little Dorrit, with a rather forlorn glance at that eminent varnisher, promised to try.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Dorrit] Reference

Mr Tinkler, unused to receive such short orders in connection with the fair varnisher, paused.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Dorrit] Reference

In the end, though, she had kept on hitching-subsequently thinking of the varnisher only in times of stress, frustration and self-doubt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Even Cowgirls Get The Blues]

Thou varnisher of fools, and cheat of all the wise!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1] Reference

William, at 17, went to work as a painter and varnisher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of the Times] Reference

After the war, Connelly lived with his wife and family at 332 E. 22nd St., worked as a varnisher and died in 1889.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queens Crap] Reference

Back then, I was 32 and worked as a truck varnisher in a suburb of London, making about 1500£ month on average.    From Wordnik.com.  [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference

The witnesses were John Chadwick, aged twenty-nine; Joseph Hill, aged forty-seven, the varnisher; one Mallestone, the fencing-master, and especially.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference

Pillars; and so about our business again, and particularly to Lilly's, the varnisher about my prints, whereof some of them are pasted upon the boards, and to my full content.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 73: April/May 1669] Reference

Of that part behind the curtain, which has not yet been destined to glow beneath the brush of the varnisher or vibrate to the hammer of the carpenter, little is thought by the public, and little need be said by the Committee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collections and Recollections] Reference

Westminster myself with my wife by coach and meeting took up Mr. Lovett the varnisher with us, who is a pleasant speaking and humoured man, so my wife much taken with him, and a good deale of worke I believe I shall procure him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference

I left her at it, and toward Westminster myself with my wife by coach and meeting took up Mr. Lovett the varnisher with us, who is a pleasant speaking and humoured man, so my wife much taken with him, and a good deale of worke I believe I shall procure him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 43: May/June 1666] Reference

Lovett's, a varnisher, to see his manner of new varnish, but found not him at home, but his wife, a very beautiful woman, who shewed me much variety of admirable work, and is in order to my having of some papers fitted with his lines for my use for tables and the like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 35: May/June 1665] Reference

At noon my wife come to me at my tailor's, and I sent her home and myself and Tom dined at Hercules 'Pillars; and so about our business again, and particularly to Lilly's, the varnisher about my prints, whereof some of them are pasted upon the boards, and to my full content.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference

In illustration may be mentioned: the French group of the International Working-men's Association which assembled round Fribourg and Tolain; the English trade unionists; the "integralists" in France, whose origin was the "Revue Socialiste," edited by the gentle ex-manual worker, Benoit Malon (the note of alarm against this form of socialism was sounded first by the medical student Paul Brousse, next by the intransigent Marxists under the leadership of Paul Lafargue, who had just secured his medical diploma in England, and finally by the man of letters Jules Guesde); the Independent Labor Party with the Labor Representation Committee; the socialists of Genoa, led by the varnisher Pietro Chiesa; the peasants of Reggio Emilia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy] Reference

"The age of Charlemagne was an era in the arts; and the addition of linseed-oil to the materials of the varnisher and decorator may on the above evidence be assigned to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference

Thence home, and I by and by to Mr. Povy's to see him, who is yet in his chamber not well, and thence by his advice to one Lovett's, a varnisher, to see his manner of new varnish, but found not him at home, but his wife, a very beautiful woman, who shewed me much variety of admirable work, and is in order to my having of some papers fitted with his lines for my use for tables and the like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference