0 to paint furniture with a very shiny varnish (= liquid painted on wood to protect it):
1 a very shiny varnish used on furniture
He is selling a beautifully french-polished mandolin.
I’m going to french-polish the table.
Another good black polish is obtained by gas-black being applied to the rubber after wetting with French polish, the cover being then put on and worked in the usual manner.
By repeated oiling and shellacking one produces a French polish that is very durable and elastic.
Have beside you linseed-oil in one receptacle, and some French polish in another.
If I only hadn't used that abominable French polish this morning.
Nothing is so good for the best class of work as polishing entirely with French polish.