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“The history behind Jensen is huge,” says Kate Henderson, a 35-year-old varnisher who has been at Jensen for two years.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 23, 2018

During World War I he had a Navy interlude as "third-class painter and varnisher."

From Time Magazine Archive

As soon as they got there, Drosselmeier went straight to his cousin the toy maker and doll-carver, and gilder and varnisher, whom he had not seen for a great many long years.

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm

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 On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by Ruskin, John

Poor Little Dorrit, with a rather forlorn glance at that eminent varnisher, promised to try.

From Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles