glosses

noun

1. 1.A surface shine or luster/lustre
2. 2.A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance
3. 3.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.
4. 4.A glossary; a collection of such notes.
5. 5.An expression requiring such explanatory treatment.