gloss
/ɡlɔs/ verbe C2En français : lustrer, glacer, vernir
- To give a gloss or sheen to.
- To make (something) attractive by deception
- To become shiny.
- Used in a phrasal verb: gloss over (“to cover up a mistake or crime, to treat something with less care than it deserves”).
He/she/it glosses · Prétérit glossed · Participe passé glossed · Forme en -ing glossing
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- gloss
- He/she/it
- glosses
- Prétérit
- glossed
- Participe passé
- glossed
- Forme en -ing
- glossing
Verbes à particule et expressions
Dans la bibliothèque
Be clean, for the strength of the hunter is known by the gloss of his hide.
Oh, how pretty it was--a lovely soft brown gloria with all the gloss of silk; a skirt with dainty frills and shirrings; a waist elaborately pintucked in the most fashionable way, with a little ruffle of filmy lace at the neck.
He returns immaculate in the evening with the gloss still on his hat and his boots.
“Very good, father-in-law,” said Cavalcanti, yielding to his low-born nature, which would escape sometimes through the aristocratic gloss with which he sought to conceal it.
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