glossyn.

Brit.

/ˈɡlɒsi/, U.S.

/ˈɡlɔsi/,

/ˈɡlɑsi/

Etymology: < glossy adj.

colloquial (originally U.S.).

a. A photograph with a glossy surface. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > [noun] > photograph by style or subject

high key1849

carte1861

carte-de-visite1861

wedding group1861

vignette1862

studio portrait1869

press photograph1873

cameo-type1874

war picture1883

mug1887

panel1888

snapshot1890

fuzz-type1893

stickyback1903

action photograph1904

action picture1904

scenic1913

still1916

passport photo1919

mosaic1920

press photo1923

oblique1925

action shot1927

passport photograph1927

profile shot1928

smudgea1931

glossy1931

photomontage1931

photomural1931

head shot1936

pin-up1943

mug shot1950

wedding photograph1956

wedding photo1966

full-frontal1970

photofit1970

split beaver1972

upskirt1994

selfie2002

1931 J. E. Bakeless Mag. Making 303 Photographs for half-tone reproduction should be ‘glossies’, that is, prints with a high gloss finish.

1946 T. Godsey Free Lance Photogr. iii. 45 Most of the photos produced by a free lance are glossies.

1967 Boston (Mass.) Herald 8 May 25/1 Poor Robert, I thought, it is still true what another critic once wrote of him: he is ‘an eight by 10 glossy’.

b. A ‘glossy’ magazine or the like (see glossy adj.); also, a copy of such a magazine; material printed in such magazines.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > journalism > journal > periodical > [noun] > other periodicals

annals1763

scientific journal1797

story paper1849

woman's magazine1868

woman's mag1887

house journal1912

film magazine1916

digest1922

fan magazine1928

pulp magazine1929

confession magazine1931

slick1934

glossy1945

trade1949

photonovel1967

1945 G. Endore Methinks the Lady (1947) ii. 25 She wrote most everything: pulp, glossy, copy, one-act plays.

1952 A. Wilson Hemlock & After i. iii. 55 The slightly too smart appearance, which the world of women's glossies had imposed upon her.

1955 J. Cannan Long Shadows iv. 65 Running your scissors through the poor girl's picture and then leaving the damned glossy about for anyone to see.

1960 Punch 17 Feb. 267/2 Give me the glossiest glossy and I mightn't glance at it.

1970 Daily Tel. 31 Mar. 13/2 The smart new decoration colours for the Seventies as decreed by the American glossies.

c. Cinematography. A film depicting fashionable life.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > other types

romantic comedy1748

epic1785

pre-release1871

foreign film1899

frivol1903

dramedy1905

film loop1906

first run1910

detective film1911

colour film1912

news film1912

topical1912

cinemicrograph1913

scenic1913

sport1913

newsreel1914

serial1914

sex comedy1915

war picture1915

telefilm1919

comic1920

true crime1923

art house1925

quickie1926

turkey1927

two-reeler1928

smellie1929

disaster film1930

musical1930

feelie1931

sticky1934

action comedy1936

quota quickie1936

re-release1936

screwball comedy1937

telemovie1937

pickup1939

video film1939

actioner1940

space opera1941

telepic1944

biopic1947

kinescope1949

TV movie1949

pièce noire1951

pièce rose1951

deepie1953

misterioso1953

film noir1956

policier1956

psychodrama1956

free film1958

prequel1958

co-production1959

glossy1960

sexploiter1960

sci-fier1961

tie-in1962

chanchada1963

romcom1963

wuxia1963

chick flick1964

showreel1964

mockumentary1965

sword-and-sandal1965

schlockbuster1966

mondo1967

peplum1968

thriller1968

whydunit1968

schlocker1969

buddy-buddy movie1972

buddy-buddy film1974

buddy film1974

science-fictioner1974

screwball1974

buddy movie1975

slasher movie1975

swashbuckler1975

filmi1976

triptych1976

autobiopic1977

Britcom1977

kidflick1977

noir1977

bodice-ripper1979

chopsocky1981

date movie1983

kaiju eiga1984

screener1986

neo-noir1987

indie1990

bromance2001

hack-and-slash2002

mumblecore2005

dark fantasy2007

hack-and-slay2007

gorefest2012

kidult-

1960 Guardian 19 Nov. 4/7 One of those large-scale Hollywood ‘glossies’.

1961 Guardian 18 Mar. 5/3 Both [films] are large-scale glossies.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

glossyadj.

Brit.

/ˈɡlɒsi/, U.S.

/ˈɡlɔsi/,

/ˈɡlɑsi/

Etymology: < gloss n.² + -y suffix¹.

a. Having a gloss; smooth and shining; highly polished; lustrous. spec. in Pathology, designating morbid symptoms, as glossy skin, glossy tongue. Also designating photographic or printing paper that is smooth and shiny; hence denoting a magazine, etc., printed on such paper, or something that is characteristic of the type of material which is published in such magazines.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > reflection > [adjective] > lustrous or shining with reflected light

browna1000

brightOE

cleara1300

slighta1300

burnedc1384

burnishedc1400

orientc1400

orientalc1450

sheeningc1480

refulgenta1500

silken1513

lustrantc1550

glossy1556

crisp1567

lustring1582

shiny1590

of shine1601

glossful1606

lustry1610

lustrousa1616

nitent1616

illustriousa1626

polished1649

lustrious1651

sheeny1673

shining1674

splendy1683

glazy1724

smolt1837

lustreful1843

lustred1858

sheened1920

society > communication > journalism > journal > periodical > [adjective] > magazine > type of

glossy1930

1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie xxxviii. 141 Yet hath that glossy web estimacion more.

1656 A. Cowley Davideis iii. 98 in Poems Merabs long hair was glossy chestnut brown.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 672 The rest [of the hill] entire Shon with a glossie scurff, undoubted sign That in his womb was hid metallic Ore.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 8 My self will search..For downy Peaches and the glossie Plum.

1712 A. Pope tr. Ovid Sapho to Phaon in tr. Ovid Epist. (ed. 8) 9 Glossy Jett is pair'd with shining White.

1766 W. Gordon Gen. Counting-house 430 10½ yards striped glossy silk.

1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 183 Its streak somewhat glossy.

1808 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 19 224 His eyes were of a glossy white, and his tongue furred.

1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. iv. 64 He comes..in a very glossy hat, the only man in the room not in cap and gown.

1870 J. Paget Lect. Surg. Pathol. (ed. 3) ii. 32 The American army surgeons..have confirmed my description [in 1864] of this ‘glossy skin’.

1877 W. Black Green Pastures xxxi The sharp contrast between the dazzling white of the tables and the glossy black faces and heads of the waiters.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 345 If general it [i.e. glossitis] is often called glossy tongue.

1897 C. M. Hepworth Animated Photogr. p. xv (advt.) Citos glossy P.O.P. Citos matte P.O.P.

1930 Post Office Electr. Engin. Jrnl. July 101/1 The stock of printing papers, which all are ‘Glossy’.

1934 R. Macaulay Going Abroad xii. 88 One of those smart, glossy, illustrated magazines.

1936 Archit. Rev. 80 135/1 Salzburg, full of Americans in green corduroy shorts reading their glossy magazines.

1955 M. Gilbert Sky High viii. 117 She had made a pile of the glossy weeklies, and was looking at the latest copy of Country Life.

1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Nov. 636/4 Like Harper's it is ‘semi-glossy’ and determinedly middle-brow, half way between the stringently intellectual and specialized Kenyon, Sewanee, Hudson and Partisan Reviews and the glossy and sophisticated Ladies' Home Journal, Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.

1967 Observer 1 Oct. 9/1 The ignorant and the downright stupid, whose only idea of what to expect is derived from glossy travel brochures.

b. figurative. Having a specious appearance or fair outward show.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [adjective] > having or given specious appearance

paintedc1390

daubedc1400

cloakeda1500

fucate1531

fucated1535

coloured1537

flim-flam1577

tinsel1595

varnisheda1616

punkish1616

white-limeda1631

pargeted1645

tinselled1651

vizarded1663

lacquered1687

glossy1698

catchpenny1705

catch-shilling1808

tinselly1811

whitewashed1859

shoddy1882

veneered1884

hollowed-out1890

face-lifted1941

suede shoe1952

cosmetic1955

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 269 The adulterate and glossy Customs in esteem among the Persians.

1724 R. Welton Substance Christian Faith 359 They appear varnish'd, fair, and glossy to the world.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1754 I. 143 He [sc. Ld. Chesterfield], however, with that glossy duplicity which was his constant study, affected to be quite unconcerned.

1796 Mod. Gulliver's Trav. 154 Protect chicane with rhet'ric's glossy shew.

1857 H. S. Randall T. Jefferson I. xv. 616 To a pure mind, there is something at first revolting in the smooth, glossy pretences of diplomacy!

Compounds

General attributive.

glossy-black adj.

ΚΠ

1806 R. Cumberland Mem. (1807) II. 107 Dishevelled locks, glossy black as the plumage of the raven.

glossy-leaved adj.

ΚΠ

1785 W. Cowper Task i. 314 Some glossy-leav'd, and shining in the sun.

1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 251 A large proportion were of the glossy-leaved myrtle family and composites.

glossy-rinded adj.

ΚΠ

1757 J. Dyer Fleece i. 5 The tall growth of glossy-rinded beech.

glossy-white adj.

ΚΠ

1806 R. Cumberland Mem. (1807) II. 83 Streaming with blood down his glossy-white sides from the shoulder to the flank.

Derivatives

ˈglossily adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > reflection > [adverb] > lustrously

oriently?1518

illustriously1638

glossily1727

lustrously1849

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Glossily, with a Lustre or Brightness; also by way of Shew or Appearance.

1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. ii. 39 Her dark hair shone glossily under the shade of an azure plume.

ˈglossiness n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > reflection > [noun] > lustre or shine from reflected light

orientness1519

lustrec1522

gloss1538

brightshine1573

shine1601

sheen1604

polishing1611

polish1629

oriencya1651

glare1658

glossiness1680

nitency1768

varnish1841

burnishing1851

orience1858

shininess1872

patina1931

1680 R. Boyle Exper. & Notes Prodvcibleness Chymicall Princ. i. 50 in Sceptical Chymist (new ed.) Their Surfaces had a smoothness and glosiness much surpassing whatever I had observed in Marine or Common Salt.

1781 F. Burney Let. May in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2003) IV. 351 She was struck with the beautiful glossiness of the Paper of a Letter.

1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 147 The sleekness and glossiness of their coats.

1871 G. H. Napheys Prevention & Cure Dis. ii. i. 364 Glossiness of the skin.

Draft additions 1993

glossy ibis n. a cosmopolitan species of ibis, Plegadis falcinellus, with glossy green wing feathers.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Threskiornithidae (ibises and spoonbills) > member of (ibis) > miscellaneous types of

snipe?a1475

scythe-bill1678

glossy ibis1785

hadada1801

black curlew1829

pelican ibis1881

waldrapp1924

1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. i. 115 (heading) Glossy Ibis.

1839–43 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Birds II. 506 The appearance of the Glossy Ibis [Ibis falcinellus] in this country, though not uncommon, is still accidental.

1961 Times 28 Oct. 9/7 The glossy ibis, now rare or extinct in much of Europe.

1985 Campbell & Lack Dict. Birds 299/2 The Glossy Ibis is a dark, chestnut-coloured bird, glossy green on the wings, and with the head mostly feathered.

Draft additions March 2013

glossy starling n. any of numerous African starlings, esp. of the genus Lamprotornis, which have dark glossy plumage with metallic blue, green, and purple reflections (frequently with distinguishing word); also (more fully Asian glossy starling) the similar Aplonis panayensis of Asia, which has red eyes.

ΚΠ

1851 S. F. Baird tr. J. G. Heck Iconogr. Encycl. II. 557 Ptilonorhynchinæ, or Glossy Starlings... The splendid starlings or shining thrushes, as they were formerly called, of Africa are arranged here.

1957 Wilson Bull. Sept. 234/1 Long-tailed Glossy Starling (Lamprotornis caudatus).

1996 Jrnl. Biogeogr. 23 583/1 There is no information on the seed-retention time or flight speed of the Asian glossy starling, Aplonis panayensis.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	glossy
释义	glossyn. Brit. /ˈɡlɒsi/, U.S. /ˈɡlɔsi/, /ˈɡlɑsi/ Etymology: < glossy adj. colloquial (originally U.S.). a. A photograph with a glossy surface. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > [noun] > photograph by style or subject high key1849 carte1861 carte-de-visite1861 wedding group1861 vignette1862 studio portrait1869 press photograph1873 cameo-type1874 war picture1883 mug1887 panel1888 snapshot1890 visite1891 fuzz-type1893 stickyback1903 action photograph1904 action picture1904 scenic1913 still1916 passport photo1919 mosaic1920 press photo1923 oblique1925 action shot1927 passport photograph1927 profile shot1928 smudgea1931 glossy1931 photomontage1931 photomural1931 head shot1936 pin-up1943 mug shot1950 wedding photograph1956 wedding photo1966 full-frontal1970 photofit1970 split beaver1972 upskirt1994 selfie2002 1931 J. E. Bakeless Mag. Making 303 Photographs for half-tone reproduction should be ‘glossies’, that is, prints with a high gloss finish. 1946 T. Godsey Free Lance Photogr. iii. 45 Most of the photos produced by a free lance are glossies. 1967 Boston (Mass.) Herald 8 May 25/1 Poor Robert, I thought, it is still true what another critic once wrote of him: he is ‘an eight by 10 glossy’. b. A ‘glossy’ magazine or the like (see glossy adj.); also, a copy of such a magazine; material printed in such magazines. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journal > periodical > [noun] > other periodicals annals1763 scientific journal1797 story paper1849 woman's magazine1868 woman's mag1887 house journal1912 film magazine1916 digest1922 fan magazine1928 pulp magazine1929 confession magazine1931 slick1934 glossy1945 trade1949 photonovel1967 1945 G. Endore Methinks the Lady (1947) ii. 25 She wrote most everything: pulp, glossy, copy, one-act plays. 1952 A. Wilson Hemlock & After i. iii. 55 The slightly too smart appearance, which the world of women's glossies had imposed upon her. 1955 J. Cannan Long Shadows iv. 65 Running your scissors through the poor girl's picture and then leaving the damned glossy about for anyone to see. 1960 Punch 17 Feb. 267/2 Give me the glossiest glossy and I mightn't glance at it. 1970 Daily Tel. 31 Mar. 13/2 The smart new decoration colours for the Seventies as decreed by the American glossies. c. Cinematography. A film depicting fashionable life. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > other types romantic comedy1748 epic1785 pre-release1871 foreign film1899 frivol1903 dramedy1905 film loop1906 first run1910 detective film1911 colour film1912 news film1912 topical1912 cinemicrograph1913 scenic1913 sport1913 newsreel1914 serial1914 sex comedy1915 war picture1915 telefilm1919 comic1920 true crime1923 art house1925 quickie1926 turkey1927 two-reeler1928 smellie1929 disaster film1930 musical1930 feelie1931 sticky1934 action comedy1936 quota quickie1936 re-release1936 screwball comedy1937 telemovie1937 pickup1939 video film1939 actioner1940 space opera1941 telepic1944 biopic1947 kinescope1949 TV movie1949 pièce noire1951 pièce rose1951 deepie1953 misterioso1953 film noir1956 policier1956 psychodrama1956 free film1958 prequel1958 co-production1959 glossy1960 sexploiter1960 sci-fier1961 tie-in1962 chanchada1963 romcom1963 wuxia1963 chick flick1964 showreel1964 mockumentary1965 sword-and-sandal1965 schlockbuster1966 mondo1967 peplum1968 thriller1968 whydunit1968 schlocker1969 buddy-buddy movie1972 buddy-buddy film1974 buddy film1974 science-fictioner1974 screwball1974 buddy movie1975 slasher movie1975 swashbuckler1975 filmi1976 triptych1976 autobiopic1977 Britcom1977 kidflick1977 noir1977 bodice-ripper1979 chopsocky1981 date movie1983 kaiju eiga1984 screener1986 neo-noir1987 indie1990 bromance2001 hack-and-slash2002 mumblecore2005 dark fantasy2007 hack-and-slay2007 gorefest2012 kidult- 1960 Guardian 19 Nov. 4/7 One of those large-scale Hollywood ‘glossies’. 1961 Guardian 18 Mar. 5/3 Both [films] are large-scale glossies. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022). glossyadj. Brit. /ˈɡlɒsi/, U.S. /ˈɡlɔsi/, /ˈɡlɑsi/ Etymology: < gloss n.² + -y suffix¹. a. Having a gloss; smooth and shining; highly polished; lustrous. spec. in Pathology, designating morbid symptoms, as glossy skin, glossy tongue. Also designating photographic or printing paper that is smooth and shiny; hence denoting a magazine, etc., printed on such paper, or something that is characteristic of the type of material which is published in such magazines. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > reflection > [adjective] > lustrous or shining with reflected light browna1000 brightOE cleara1300 slighta1300 burnedc1384 burnishedc1400 orientc1400 orientalc1450 sheeningc1480 refulgenta1500 silken1513 lustrantc1550 glossy1556 crisp1567 lustring1582 shiny1590 of shine1601 glossful1606 lustry1610 lustrousa1616 nitent1616 illustriousa1626 polished1649 lustrious1651 sheeny1673 shining1674 splendy1683 glazy1724 smolt1837 lustreful1843 lustred1858 sheened1920 society > communication > journalism > journal > periodical > [adjective] > magazine > type of glossy1930 1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie xxxviii. 141 Yet hath that glossy web estimacion more. 1656 A. Cowley Davideis iii. 98 in Poems Merabs long hair was glossy chestnut brown. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 672 The rest [of the hill] entire Shon with a glossie scurff, undoubted sign That in his womb was hid metallic Ore. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 8 My self will search..For downy Peaches and the glossie Plum. 1712 A. Pope tr. Ovid Sapho to Phaon in tr. Ovid Epist. (ed. 8) 9 Glossy Jett is pair'd with shining White. 1766 W. Gordon Gen. Counting-house 430 10½ yards striped glossy silk. 1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 183 Its streak somewhat glossy. 1808 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 19 224 His eyes were of a glossy white, and his tongue furred. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. iv. 64 He comes..in a very glossy hat, the only man in the room not in cap and gown. 1870 J. Paget Lect. Surg. Pathol. (ed. 3) ii. 32 The American army surgeons..have confirmed my description [in 1864] of this ‘glossy skin’. 1877 W. Black Green Pastures xxxi The sharp contrast between the dazzling white of the tables and the glossy black faces and heads of the waiters. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 345 If general it [i.e. glossitis] is often called glossy tongue. 1897 C. M. Hepworth Animated Photogr. p. xv (advt.) Citos glossy P.O.P. Citos matte P.O.P. 1930 Post Office Electr. Engin. Jrnl. July 101/1 The stock of printing papers, which all are ‘Glossy’. 1934 R. Macaulay Going Abroad xii. 88 One of those smart, glossy, illustrated magazines. 1936 Archit. Rev. 80 135/1 Salzburg, full of Americans in green corduroy shorts reading their glossy magazines. 1955 M. Gilbert Sky High viii. 117 She had made a pile of the glossy weeklies, and was looking at the latest copy of Country Life. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Nov. 636/4 Like Harper's it is ‘semi-glossy’ and determinedly middle-brow, half way between the stringently intellectual and specialized Kenyon, Sewanee, Hudson and Partisan Reviews and the glossy and sophisticated Ladies' Home Journal, Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. 1967 Observer 1 Oct. 9/1 The ignorant and the downright stupid, whose only idea of what to expect is derived from glossy travel brochures. b. figurative. Having a specious appearance or fair outward show. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [adjective] > having or given specious appearance paintedc1390 daubedc1400 cloakeda1500 fucate1531 fucated1535 coloured1537 flim-flam1577 tinsel1595 varnisheda1616 punkish1616 white-limeda1631 pargeted1645 tinselled1651 vizarded1663 lacquered1687 glossy1698 catchpenny1705 catch-shilling1808 tinselly1811 whitewashed1859 shoddy1882 veneered1884 hollowed-out1890 face-lifted1941 suede shoe1952 cosmetic1955 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 269 The adulterate and glossy Customs in esteem among the Persians. 1724 R. Welton Substance Christian Faith 359 They appear varnish'd, fair, and glossy to the world. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1754 I. 143 He [sc. Ld. Chesterfield], however, with that glossy duplicity which was his constant study, affected to be quite unconcerned. 1796 Mod. Gulliver's Trav. 154 Protect chicane with rhet'ric's glossy shew. 1857 H. S. Randall T. Jefferson I. xv. 616 To a pure mind, there is something at first revolting in the smooth, glossy pretences of diplomacy! Compounds General attributive. glossy-black adj. ΚΠ 1806 R. Cumberland Mem. (1807) II. 107 Dishevelled locks, glossy black as the plumage of the raven. glossy-leaved adj. ΚΠ 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 314 Some glossy-leav'd, and shining in the sun. 1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 251 A large proportion were of the glossy-leaved myrtle family and composites. glossy-rinded adj. ΚΠ 1757 J. Dyer Fleece i. 5 The tall growth of glossy-rinded beech. glossy-white adj. ΚΠ 1806 R. Cumberland Mem. (1807) II. 83 Streaming with blood down his glossy-white sides from the shoulder to the flank. Derivatives ˈglossily adv. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > reflection > [adverb] > lustrously oriently?1518 illustriously1638 glossily1727 lustrously1849 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Glossily, with a Lustre or Brightness; also by way of Shew or Appearance. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. ii. 39 Her dark hair shone glossily under the shade of an azure plume. ˈglossiness n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > reflection > [noun] > lustre or shine from reflected light orientness1519 lustrec1522 gloss1538 brightshine1573 shine1601 sheen1604 polishing1611 polish1629 oriencya1651 glare1658 glossiness1680 nitency1768 varnish1841 burnishing1851 orience1858 shininess1872 patina1931 1680 R. Boyle Exper. & Notes Prodvcibleness Chymicall Princ. i. 50 in Sceptical Chymist (new ed.) Their Surfaces had a smoothness and glosiness much surpassing whatever I had observed in Marine or Common Salt. 1781 F. Burney Let. May in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2003) IV. 351 She was struck with the beautiful glossiness of the Paper of a Letter. 1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 147 The sleekness and glossiness of their coats. 1871 G. H. Napheys Prevention & Cure Dis. ii. i. 364 Glossiness of the skin. Draft additions 1993 glossy ibis n. a cosmopolitan species of ibis, Plegadis falcinellus, with glossy green wing feathers. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Threskiornithidae (ibises and spoonbills) > member of (ibis) > miscellaneous types of snipe?a1475 scythe-bill1678 glossy ibis1785 hadada1801 black curlew1829 pelican ibis1881 waldrapp1924 1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. i. 115 (heading) Glossy Ibis. 1839–43 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Birds II. 506 The appearance of the Glossy Ibis [Ibis falcinellus] in this country, though not uncommon, is still accidental. 1961 Times 28 Oct. 9/7 The glossy ibis, now rare or extinct in much of Europe. 1985 Campbell & Lack Dict. Birds 299/2 The Glossy Ibis is a dark, chestnut-coloured bird, glossy green on the wings, and with the head mostly feathered. Draft additions March 2013 glossy starling n. any of numerous African starlings, esp. of the genus Lamprotornis, which have dark glossy plumage with metallic blue, green, and purple reflections (frequently with distinguishing word); also (more fully Asian glossy starling) the similar Aplonis panayensis of Asia, which has red eyes. ΚΠ 1851 S. F. Baird tr. J. G. Heck Iconogr. Encycl. II. 557 Ptilonorhynchinæ, or Glossy Starlings... The splendid starlings or shining thrushes, as they were formerly called, of Africa are arranged here. 1957 Wilson Bull. Sept. 234/1 Long-tailed Glossy Starling (Lamprotornis caudatus). 1996 Jrnl. Biogeogr. 23 583/1 There is no information on the seed-retention time or flight speed of the Asian glossy starling, Aplonis panayensis. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1931adj.1556
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