gloze

Definition

A comment in the margin; explanatory note; gloss; commentary.

Etymology

From Middle English glosen, from Old French gloser, from Medieval Latin glossa. More at gloss.

Example Sentences

• "So we o’ershroud stars and roses, Cherub and trophy and garland. Nothings grow something which quietly closes Heaven’s earnest eye,—not a glimpse of the far land Gets through our comments and glozes."
• "1903, Cuthbert Atchley, The Parish Clerk, and his Right to Read the Liturgical Epistle, Alcuin Club Tracts IV, London: Longmans, Green & Co., p. 15, The state of practice in the first half of the fifteenth century may be gathered from the gloze of Nicholas de Tudeschis, called Panormitan, on the text Ut quisque which we have quoted above."
• "The relation of certain words in the original to the practice of my translation may require gloze."