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glozer

noun /ˈɡləʊzə(ɹ)/

  1. A glosser; one who covers things in gloss.

    obsolete

  2. A flatterer.

    obsolete

    Lewd women to entice: Are not these virtues most esteemed And had in greatest price: To lend each man a friendly look, And use the glozer's art, In outward show to bear good will, And hate him with our heart

    To toss the buckler and the blade,

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English gloser, glosour, from Anglo-Norman glosor; by surface analysis, gloze + er.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry glozer (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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