glosses

The impression I get from these cultural glosses is that this is a more normal part of Arab political culture – like booing, I guess.

Matthew Yglesias » In What Culture is Having a Shoe Thrown At You a Sign of Respect? 2010

The phrase glosses over the fact that this was captured in a defensive war against outside aggression.

Reuters: Top News 2010

It's indie rock, obviously, but that label glosses over the fact that there are subtle elements of experimental jazz, little snippets of electronica, the occasional wayward classical instrument, and a surprising love for old-timey melodies to be found drifting about in their musical landscape.

Epinions Recent Content for Home 2009

It is the age of great Bibles and of "glosses" -- single books or groups of books of the Bible equipped with a marginal and interlinear comment

The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts Helps for Students of History, No. 17. 1899

Some people consider "bushmeat" a euphemism that glosses over the killing of gorillas, chimpanzees and other primates for food.

Week in Words Erin McKean 2011

Chart consumer prices and economic activity of BRICS nations compared with the U.S. The group's simple moniker glosses over the fact that its members are vastly different.

China Seeks Heft for 'BRICS' Owen Fletcher 2011

Some of the margin notes, called glosses, may have been unread for years, said Sarah Jane Murray, assistant professor of medieval literature and French at Baylor University.

Archive 2007-03-01 2007

Some of the margin notes, called glosses, may have been unread for years, said Sarah Jane Murray, assistant professor of medieval literature and French at Baylor University.

Medieval manuscript to be put online 2007

While vaudeville managers may seem content to book an act that is not of the very first rank, because it is played by someone whose ability and whose name glosses over its defects, they do not encourage such offerings by long contracts.

Writing for Vaudeville Brett Page

These translations, sometimes bearing upon entire passages, more often upon single words, were called glosses, Hebrew laazim

Rashi Liber, Maurice 1906