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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



... dozens of them springing from the same root, you would think them beautiful. Then those brown edgings are black as jet and glossy." ...
— The Old Helmet, Volume I • Susan Warner

... the spurs of hills, and on the headlands naval stations, hospitals, lazzaretti, and prisons. A prickly bindweed (the Smilax sarsaparilla) forms a feature in the near landscape, with its creamy odoriferous blossoms, coral berries, and glossy thorned leaves. ...
— New Italian sketches • John Addington Symonds

... which a groom led toward her, had been pawing and arching his glossy neck impatiently since the first horn set his blood-drops dancing; at the touch of her foot upon the stirrup, he snorted satisfaction through his wide-flaring nostrils and would have leaped forward like a stone ...
— The Ward of King Canute • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz

... way to let members of the household pass by, one by one. Lucia was seventeen years old, and probably resembled her mother as the latter had looked at the same age. She was slight, and tall, and dark, with a quantity of glossy black hair coiled behind her head. Her black eyes had not yet acquired that sleepy look which advancing life and stoutness had put into her mother's, as a sort of sign of the difficulty of quick motion. Her figure was lithe, though she was not ...
— Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster • F. Marion Crawford

... sat a girl of fifteen, with the family features in their prettiest development—the chiseled straight profile, the clear white roseately tinted skin, the large well-opened azure eyes, the profuse glossy hair, the long, slender, graceful limbs, and that pretty head leant against the knees of her own very counterpart; for these were Wilmet and Alda, the twin girls who had succeeded Felix, and whose beauty had been the marvel of Vale Leston, their shabby dress the ...
— The Pillars of the House, V1 • Charlotte M. Yonge


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