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▸ noun: (figuratively) A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.
▸ verb: (transitive) To give a gloss or sheen to.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make (something) attractive by deception
▸ verb: (intransitive) To become shiny.
▸ verb: (transitive, idiomatic) Used in a phrasal verb: gloss over (“to cover up a mistake or crime, to treat something with less care than it deserves”).
▸ noun: (countable) 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.
▸ noun: (countable) A glossary; a collection of such notes.
▸ noun: (countable, obsolete) An expression requiring such explanatory treatment.
▸ noun: (countable) An extensive commentary on some text.
▸ noun: (countable, law, US) An interpretation by a court of a specific point within a statute or case law.
▸ verb: (transitive) To add a gloss to (a text).
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