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GLOSSILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does glossily mean?
• GLOSSILY (adverb)
The adverb GLOSSILY has 1 sense:
1. in a glossy manner
Familiarity information: GLOSSILY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a glossy manner
Context example:
the magazine was glossily printed
Pertainym:
glossy ((of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and shiny especially by pressing between rollers)
Context examples
Lady Lynn was a large and stout personage of about forty, very erect, very haughty-looking, richly dressed in a satin robe of changeful sheen: her dark hair shone glossily under the shade of an azure plume, and within the circlet of a band of gems.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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