gloss

A surface shine or luster.

A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.

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.

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.

A definition or explanation of a word sense.

To give a gloss or sheen to.

To make (something) attractive by deception

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”).

To add a gloss to (a text).