gloss
noun
a superficial luster or shine; glaze.
glossless
-
a word derived from
gloss.
Example Sentences
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The eggs are tiny little elongated ovals, pure white, and absolutely glossless.
From The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 by Allan Octavian Hume
Suits which looked worn and glossless while they were still new, flabbily draped on dummies like corpses with painted cheeks.
From Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
As a body the eggs have a faint gloss, decidedly less, however, than those of S. crinigera, but some few are absolutely glossless.
From The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 by Allan Octavian Hume
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 Allan Octavian Hume
The shell is very fine but almost glossless; here and there a somewhat more glossy egg is met with.
From The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 by Allan Octavian Hume
