polished

Etymology

adj

1. Made smooth or shiny by polishing.
   polished shoes
   A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…]. 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess
2. Refined, elegant.
   a polished performance
   We may be well assured, that a writer, conversant with the world, would never have ventured to expose the gods of his country to public ridicule, had they not already been the objects of secret contempt among the polished and enlightened orders of society. 1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol I, ch 2-pt i
   What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society. 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

verb

1. simple past and past participle of polish