| Cosmetics companies are making bronzing-powder compacts the size of salad plates, guaranteed not to leave a square inch of skin unburnished. |
| Gold-leaf gilding, even if it is unburnished, is infinitely more brilliant than either gold paint or shell gold. |
| In northern European paintings matt, unburnished gilding is also found and contracts may specify which areas are to be burnished and which are to be matt. |
| Nymphs and satyrs in Florentine bronze smirked and capered in the recesses of the pale gray wall, relieved by mouldings and medallions in unburnished gold. |
