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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



... the color of the leaf will be darker than if grown upon a light loam. Some varieties of the plant have leaves of a smooth glossy appearance while others are rough and the surface uneven—more like a cabbage leaf, a peculiar feature of the tobacco of Syria. The kind of fertilizers applied to the soil also in a measure as well as the soil itself has much to do with the texture or body of the ...
— Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce • E. R. Billings
... district doctor who had made a post-mortem on the old woman. He told the court all that he remembered of his report at the post-mortem and all that he had succeeded in thinking of on his way to the court that morning. The president screwed up his eyes at his new glossy black suit, at his foppish cravat, at his moving lips; he listened and in his mind the languid thought seemed to spring ...
— The Schoolmaster and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... he himself, for the moment and thus related to them by his observation, IN it? Then there was something in the great world covertly tigerish, which came to him across the lawn and in the charming air as a waft from the jungle. Yet it made him admire most of the two, made him envy, the glossy male tiger, magnificently marked. These absurdities of the stirred sense, fruits of suggestion ripening on the instant, were all reflected in his next words to little Bilham. "I know—if we talk of that—whom I should ...
— The Ambassadors • Henry James
... a dream again? No! There he was in his own evergreen reality, with the copious flow of language pouring smoothly from his lips; with the lambent dash of humor twinkling in his party-colored eyes—there he was, more audacious, more persuasive, more respectable than ever, in a suit of glossy black, with a speckless white cravat, and a rampant shirt frill—the unblushing, the ...
— No Name • Wilkie Collins
... Midas had grown quite an old man and used to trot Marygold's children on his knee, he was fond of telling them this marvelous story, pretty much as I have told it to you. And then he would stroke their glossy ringlets and tell them that their hair likewise had a rich shade of gold, which they ...
— Journeys Through Bookland V2 • Charles H. Sylvester


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