Refinement
Polish
noun, verbal noun
You take your practice and you wash it. Slowly chunks fall off and it becomes more and more simple. You are washing away the gunk on the outside to attain refinement and polish yourself, via practice.
This is a jukugo word, which usually means on'yomi readings from the kanji. If you know the readings of your kanji you'll know how to read this as well.
コウイチの洗練されたおもかげを、二度と忘れることはないでしょう。
I'll never forget the look of Koichi's refined face.
コウイチは十月に行われる詩のコンテストのために下書き中の詩を洗練しようとしている。
Koichi is trying to polish a rough draft of his poetry for the poem contest in October.
サーモンがあんな風に洗練された日本語を話すなんて知らなかった。
I didn’t know that Salmon spoke in such refined Japanese like that.