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Glossy   /glˈɔsi/   Listen
Glossy

adjective
(compar. glossier; superl. glossiest)
1.
(of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and glossy especially by pressing between rollers.  Synonym: calendered.  "Glossy paper"
2.
Reflecting light.  Synonyms: glistening, lustrous, sheeny, shining, shiny.  "The horse's glossy coat" , "Lustrous auburn hair" , "Saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet" , "Shining white enamel"
3.
Superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense.  Synonym: showy.
noun
1.
A magazine printed on good quality paper.  Synonyms: slick, slick magazine.
2.
A photograph that is printed on smooth shiny paper.



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"Glossy" Quotes from Famous Books



... brilliant contrast to Katherine, in thick dull silk and crape, her snowy neck looking all the more softly white for its dark setting: the only relief to her general blackness was the glinting light on her glossy, wavy, chestnut ...
— A Crooked Path - A Novel • Mrs. Alexander
... the glass over pictures with a cloth wrung from hot water and dipped in alcohol. Polish them immediately, until they are dry and glossy, with a chamois or ...
— Fowler's Household Helps • A. L. Fowler
... locality completely developed the true characters of the foot, its ranks of joints, its claws and integuments. So far as I have seen, the faultless impressions are upon shales of the finest texture with a smooth glossy surface, such as would retain the beautiful impressions of rain drops. This kind of surface containing footmarks is exceedingly rare: I have seen but few detached examples; recently it has been my good fortune to recover a stratum, containing in all ...
— The Rain Cloud - or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain • Anonymous
... and add to the cornstarch mixture. Stir this into the boiling milk and stir well. Put the chocolate, sugar and boiling water into a small frying pan or saucepan, and set over a hot fire. Stir until the mixture is smooth and glossy; beat this into the pudding and cook for 2 minutes longer. Take from the fire and add the vanilla. Dip a mould into cold water and turn the pudding into it. Set away to cool. When cold and stiff, turn out on a flat dish and surround with ...
— Public School Domestic Science • Mrs. J. Hoodless
... were thus growing into each other's favor, the door opened and admitted a gentleman of tall and thin figure and white and emaciated face, shaded by a luxuriant growth of glossy black hair and beard. He could not have been more than twenty-six, but, prematurely broken by vice, he seemed forty years of age. He advanced bowing toward the ...
— Capitola the Madcap • Emma D. E. N. Southworth


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