noun A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.
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verb To give a gloss or sheen to.
verb To make (something) attractive by deception
verb To become shiny.
verb Used in a phrasal verb: gloss over (“to cover up a mistake or crime, to treat something with less care than it deserves”).
noun 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 Synonym of glossary, a collection of such notes.