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gloss [Gr.,=tongue], explanatory note on a word or words of a text, usually written between the lines or in a margin of a manuscript. In copying a manuscript, a copyist sometimes incorporated a gloss in the text, so that the copy departed from the original. The gloss may be in a language different from that of the text. Old glosses on the Bible have value as evidence of tradition, as have glosses in civil and canon law. gloss [gläs] (optics) The ratio of the light specularly reflected from a surface to the total light reflected. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Hippies is also a painter, mostly using ordinary emulsion or gloss paint on cotton cloth or artists' canvas. They were made from a controlled range of materials--lengths of one-by-one wood, Plexiglas, cord, mild-steel rod, oak blocks--but to this list should be added the color, in the form of enamel or gloss paint, with which the surfaces of many works were covered. As well, the child regularly damaged the couple's home by, among other things, tipping gloss paint over carpets, walls and a bed. |
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