gloss
/ɡlɔs/ noun C2- A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the margin of a document, or between lines of a text.
- Synonym of glossary, a collection of such notes.
- An extensive commentary on some text.
- An interpretation by a court of a specific point within a statute or case law.
- A definition or explanation of a word sense.
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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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