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Soft wood that learned to lie about being hard, one varnish coat at a time.

means Timber cut from pine trees, soft and pale and full of resin, cheap enough to build with and honest enough to dent if you look at it wrong.

from A straightforward compound — 'pine,' the resinous evergreen tree, whose own name traces back through Old English 'pin' to a Latin root 'pinus,' plus 'wood,' from Old English 'wudu.' No hidden trick here: the word simply names the thing it is, wood from a pine, long before anyone thought to dress it up with varnish.

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