gloss

A surface shine or luster.

A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.

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To me more dear, congenial to my heart, / One native charm than all the gloss of art.

To give a gloss or sheen to.

To make (something) attractive by deception

You have the art to gloss the foulest cause.

To become shiny.

Used in a phrasal verb: gloss over (“to cover up a mistake or crime, to treat something with less care than it deserves”).

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.

Synonym of glossary, a collection of such notes.

An expression requiring such explanatory treatment.

An extensive commentary on some text.

An interpretation by a court of a specific point within a statute or case law.

This volume is thus not a narrowly defined treatment of the Code of Professional Responsibility but rather represents a "common law" gloss on it.

Judicial Gloss on Test [section title]