OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 18544

gloss

/ɡlɒs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
brillo • lustre
A surface shine or luster.
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📚 noun • entry_id 18545

gloss

/ɡlɒs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
glosa
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.
All this, without a gloss or comment, / He would unriddle in a moment.
He was a prolific annotator - writing around fifty thousand glosses in as many as twenty manuscripts.
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