Crossword-Solution: UNGLOSSED 9 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Skin-like immaculateness had grown over Soames, as over many Londoners; impossible to conceive of him with a hair out of place, a tie deviating one-eighth of an inch from the perpendicular, a collar unglossed! He would not have gone without a bath for worlds—it was the fashion to take baths; and how bitter was his scorn of people who omitted them! But Irene could be imagined, like some nymph, bathing in wayside streams, for the joy of the freshness and of seeing her own fair body.

Let there be plain truth between us at this interview, if there never has been before.” “I don’t understand you.” “Naked truth, unglossed over,” she pursued, bending her eyes determinately upon him.

But as an unglossed commentary concerning the ethical side of stage life it provided food for thought.

Altho not formerly so fastidious—I have found cliff nests composed entirely of dried grass—these birds have become connoisseurs in upholstery of feathers, and their unglossed white eggs, five or six in number, are invariably smothered in purloined down, until we begin to suspect that our fowls rather than our features have favored our adoption.