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Suits which looked worn and glossless while they were still new, flabbily draped on dummies like corpses with painted cheeks.

From Main Street by Lewis, Sinclair

The eggs are glossless, of a greenish or greyish-white ground, more or less profusely speckled and spotted with red, reddish brown, and dingy purple.

From The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 by Hume, Allan Octavian

Eggs received from Sikhim are broad ovals, glossless, with greenish-white grounds, profusely speckled and mottled with slightly varying shades of brown, here and there intermingled with dull, pale inky purple.

From The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 by Hume, Allan Octavian

The eggs of this species are long, and at times narrow, ovals, pure white and fairly glossy, but occasionally almost glossless, without any marks or spottings.

From The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 by Hume, Allan Octavian

The egg of this species closely resembles that of some of the species of Abrornis—a moderately broad oval, slightly pointed at the small end, pure white, and almost glossless.

From The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 by Hume, Allan Octavian