Words similar to patina

Example sentences for: patina

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The feeling, one assumes, is that broadcasting them, regardless of context, at times when children are listening, lends rude words a patina of approval that inures them to the corrosive atmosphere of taboo.
The gold leaf is then applied and the whole image is given a patina.
In practice, awards seem to gain legitimacy with the patina of age.
Now, with the onset of outsourcing, globalization, and the virtual corporation, those old factories have acquired a patina of humanist authenticity they could not have had in their own time.
Built in the 1620s its once fine carvings have taken on an aged patina and it looks strangely out of place among the bright Internet cafés now replacing traditional tavernas in this bustling square.