English-French translations for gloss

glose
commentaire
Ceci ne signifie pas que le groupe du parti des socialistes s'associe à tous les propos du rapport 1995, ni d'ailleurs à tous les commentaires du rapporteur. That does not, however, mean that the Socialist Group agrees with all that is set down in the 1995 report or, indeed, the rapporteur's gloss on it.

description
excuse
Mais naturellement, il ne saurait être question de voir ici M. Pompidou excuser le gouvernement français en disant qu'il a tout de même consulté les ONG. But we surely cannot allow Mr Pompidou to gloss over the French government's behaviour and claim that they did consult the NGOs.
explication
gloss

A surface shine or luster/lustre
To give a gloss or sheen to
To become shiny
A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the margin of a document, or between lines of a text
A glossary; a collection of such notes
An extensive commentary on some text
An interpretation by a court of specific point within a statute or case law
To add a gloss to (a text

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