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Answer for the clue "Lip enhancer ", 5 letters:
gloss

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context uncountable English) A surface shine or luster/lustre 2 (context uncountable figuratively English) A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance vb. 1 (context transitive English) To give a gloss or sheen to. 2 (context ...

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n. an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text [syn: rubric ] an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field [syn: glossary ] the property of being smooth ...

Usage examples of gloss.

They were tiny brilliant birds, gleaming with gloss and health, and Romilly caught her breath at the sight of them.

Roman, eyes large, black, and sparkling, and a ruddiness in his cheeks that was the more a grace, for his complexion was of the brownest, not of that dusky dun colour which excludes the idea of freshness, but of that clear, olive gloss which, glowing with life, dazzles perhaps less than fairness, and yet pleases more, when it pleases at all.

Egerton had more of the gloss of life, those of Denbigh were certainly distinguished by a more finished delicacy and propriety.

Sometimes the desire for power, or to possess the substance for its own sake, moves the plot, but the Dickensian themes of mistaken, lost, or found identity, themes that have dominated novels ever since the nineteenth century, are deliberately effacedanother gloss on the modern situation.

Homer, should not leave some gloss of grecism upon the idiom into which so many of its greatest beauties had been transfused.

Behind the icons, on the wall, she sees her icon dancing against a gaudy familiar packaging, its gloss a little dulled from handling.

Sleeping next to him in the huge old bed that had been in the family since the days of Charles EL She would not be the first female member of her family to enter a loveless marriage--far from it, and even these days, in moneyed and powerful circles, marriage were often still very much paren tally instituted and approved, no matter how much this might be glossed over.

Such peripeties are often glossed over by the history of literature in silence.

He let his mind concentrate utterly on the gloss of the common phalaenopsis and its new growth: its bloom stem had yellowed, and he had soon to take the critical step of separating the parent and the offshoot on that yellowing stem.

Now by Baptism a man attains only to the lowest rank among the Christian people: and consequently it belongs to the lesser officials of the Church to baptize, namely, the priests, who hold the place of the seventy-two disciples of Christ, as the gloss says in the passage quoted from Luke 10.

I was beginning to think she was an evil robot, programmed to prattle on about purses until her frosty-pink lip gloss dried up.

After an emergency reapplication of lip gloss I made my way to the dressing room.

She checked her makeup in a compact minor, reapplied her lip gloss, and then returned to the party, entering through the banquet room.

He explained about Rips parents, glossing over the details of their death, then rapidly assured him Lorrie was safe in Lands End.

Daily life on the Ark, however had the Noahs borne it, that yearlong drift in searching circles afloat above their ruined world as the lambs and goats and she-bears and tigers and workhorses and owls and swans and geese among them contended for the best cabin and a preeminent chair upon the deck, all the while scanning the lowering skies, bent against the gales, complaining of the rain, glossed by lightning snaps, watching the far horizon for the first hint of land, for the greening crest of the highest hilltop to appear which they recognized at once and reclaimed as their own.