Brightwork

Mercedes-Benz And a single stroke of brightwork divides the grille and midlines the prominent, enamel-like Mercedes star. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A fantasia of knurled aluminum, polished brightwork, a door-to-door waistrail of walnut marquetry and piano-black fascia. ❋ Dan Neil (2011)

Bentley The workspace from the driver's seat is exemplary: A fantasia of knurled aluminum, polished brightwork, a door-to-door waistrail of walnut marquetry and piano-black fascia. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And everything is swathed in glove leather and Alcantara, trimmed in a choice of three varieties of wood, bezeled in well-crafted aluminum brightwork and bathed in a kind of narcosis of ambient light. ❋ Dan Neil (2011)

Note the perfect bow of brightwork around the base of the windows and the matching cut lines, rising at the side marker and descending at the C-pillar. ❋ Dan Neil (2012)

In both cars a single strake of brightwork divides the grille and midlines the prominent, enamel-like Mercedes star. ❋ Dan Neil (2011)

Meanwhile, these instruments create a virtual line across the front of the car, right at the level of the four-ring logo and, combined with the strakes of brightwork in the grille and brake ducts, the effect is to broaden, to exaggerate the horizontality of the car. ❋ DAN NEIL (2010)

The lead characters are Joe and Sam, heroic Salvors operating from the M/V Triton in the North Atlantic stripping sunken frieghters of brightwork. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Reading William F. Buckley's piece "Aweigh" (July/August Atlantic) reminded me that before my books started getting published, I supported my writing addiction by refinishing brightwork on yachts. ❋ Unknown (2004)

All the brightwork gleamed, all the pots and pans and kettles and knives were ranked and racked and arranged by size. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The sun was just coming up and bouncing off the brightwork. ❋ Unknown (2004)

An occasional bodyguard polished the brightwork on a parked chariot, looking bored, or a neat maid walked out silently on some routine errand. ❋ Davis, Lindsey (1998)

At the dock, he would tell them that they were a great crew and that he wanted them to come back so he could teach them about oiling teak and polishing brightwork. ❋ Unknown (1990)

He picked up a piece of the fancy horse-harness, a blue-leather strap embellished with silver brightwork, and turned it around and around in his hands. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1990)

The metal they had to have was not brightwork; it was dulled and tarnished and left that way. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1989)

[Lil'] Jimmy just [got his] [brightwork] on. ❋ Dylly (2017)

Hey [boats] go out on the [flight deck] and hit up all that brightwork before [the Captain] has a shit fit! ❋ Terminalthird (2016)