A surface shine or luster.
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All this, without a gloss or comment, / He would unriddle in a moment.
Probably from a North Germanic language, compare Icelandic glossi (“spark, flame”), glossa (“to flame”); or perhaps from dialectal Dutch gloos (“a glow, flare”), related to West Frisian gloeze (“a glo...
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To make (something) attractive by deception
You have the art to gloss the foulest cause.