gloze
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
noun
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Archaic. flattery or deceit.
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Obsolete. a specious show.
verb
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to explain away; minimize the effect or importance of
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to make explanatory notes or glosses on (a text)
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to use flattery (on)
noun
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flattery or deceit
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an explanatory note or gloss
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specious or deceptive talk or action
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of gloze
1250–1300; Middle English < Old French gloser < Medieval Latin glossāre; see gloss 2
Example Sentences
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"For illustration, here are some shorties which we'd call real $7 words, and wouldn't use here at this time without explanation: adit, erg, ergo, ohm, gloze, cozen, griff, modal, mure, snash, viable."
From Time Magazine Archive
"Don't try to gloze it over," cut in Blake.
From Out of the Primitive by Bennet, Robert Ames
But if you had made a study of faces, your second glance would have cut through that gloze of oily, apologetic appeal.
From The Plum Tree by Ashe, E. M.
I wish to gloze over nothing; I did not make my own nature, and in these pages I describe it as it was and is without palliation or excuse.
From Doctor Therne by Haggard, Henry Rider
True, his accent had not that subtle gloze, that consonantal softness and intonation that mark the Southron, but he was a Southron for all that, and one of themselves.
From The Valiants of Virginia by Rives, Hallie Erminie
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