furbish
verb (used with object)
to restore to freshness of appearance or good condition (often followed by up).
had furbished
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past perfectof furbish.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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No public official but had furbished up his funny stories and tucked a speech into his coat against an emergency.
From Time Magazine Archive
I had furbished up the memories of twenty years before—which was one mistake—and was looking forward to it—which was another.
From The Sixth Sense A Novel by Stephen McKenna
We rode to the strait of battle; there cleared us a space, around the white swords in our right hands which the smiths had furbished fair.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Miss Balfour had furbished up the distant hauteur of the society manner she had at times used effectively, but she found herself instead taking the beautiful, forlorn little creature in her arms.
From Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) by William MacLeod Raine
These chiefs, unable any longer to employ usefully those old bugbears, the terms "Jacobin" and "sans-culotte," decidedly too hackneyed, had furbished up the word "demagogue."
From Napoleon the Little by Victor Hugo
