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Glossed

Gloss \Gloss\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Glossed; p. pr. & vb. n. Glossing.] To give a superficial luster or gloss to; to make smooth and shining; as, to gloss cloth.

The glossed and gleamy wave.
--J. R. Drake.

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glossed
  1. Having a gloss. v

  2. (en-past of: gloss)

Usage examples of "glossed".

Father introduced our two Mimbrates, but deliberately glossed over my presence.

I hadn't really wanted to take up residence in the ducal palace, but Kathandrion wouldn't hear of my lodging anywhere else, and so I had to put up with certain inconveniences which were made all the worse by Elisera's quaint introductions that stressed something I'd rather she'd glossed over.

Whenever I mentioned those incidents, I glossed over them by calling them ‘bad days,' but they usually went way past ‘bad.

Halley asked, with a casual note that glossed over the circumstances under which Faith had left Prescott.

She had glossed over the previous night's episode to her mother, thinking it best not to let on that she'd smashed a man's testicles.

The hand that had painstakingly written out each word and page had done so in an alphabet she did not know, but the ancient text was glossed with notes in Arethousan.

She opened it to the cen­tral text, that ancient, fragile papyrus, dry under her skin as she ran a finger along the line of text, written in a lan­guage she did not recognize but glossed here and there in Arethousan.

The hand that had painstakingly written out each word and page had done so in an alphabet she did not know, but the ancient text was glossed with notes in Areth-ousan.

Thecla herself, and glossed by an unknown hand in Arethousan—because the original text is written in the tongue of Sais, as was spoken in ancient days.

You see how the ancient language of Sais is glossed in Arethousan by a second hand.

Is the Arethousan gloss written contemporaneously with the original, or was it glossed later?

She had quickly glossed over any qualms she'd had about her actions when she saw that the man had come whilst being subjected to the catheter.

High cheekbones, generous lips glossed the palest pink, her slender neck adorned with a chunky silver necklace.

His remaining scimitar dropped to the ground, and his glossed eyes did not blink.

Had nostalgia glossed over Drizzt's memories of those years of early training?