Ungloss

Quick meaning: Ungloss is a verb meaning To remove the gloss from; to make less glossy.

Meaning

To remove the gloss from; to make less glossy.

More Meanings

1. To reverse the process of glossing; to make explicit what has been glossed over.
2. A detail that has been made explicit through unglossing; an unglossing.
3. The act of unglossing.

Example Sentences

Already death is busy at your roots, a bug-rite to ungloss you of green glamor

'Twere good sport To prick them forward to the escalade, At stormy midnight from the soaking trench! It would ungloss the butterflies!

Rousseau's trees and leaves and branches are shiny-green enamel. Ungloss them. Smudge them black, the lion has finished eating the leopard, the stillness is eternal . . . that is my head.

The repetition of line 576-7 'always taken pride of my figure' in line 584 serves to mark the end of this gloss-within-an-ungloss followed by candidate ungloss and decision (lines 574-582) and to make a return to the larger ungloss which began in line 574.

Word Forms

• unglosses
• unglossing
• unglossed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include degloss, deglorify, deglamorize, deglamorise, gloze, varnish.

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