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The band has polished its performance since the last concert.
1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations:
Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
(intransitive) To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface.
Steel polishes well.
a.1626, Francis Bacon, Inquisitions touching the compounding of metals:
The other [gold], whether it will polish so well Wherein for the latter [brass] it is probable it will
(transitive) To refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite.
1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost., London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker; nd by Robert Boulter; nd Matthias Walker,, →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books:, London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1873, →OCLC:
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