Definition of "glossies" []

• Plural form of glossy. (noun)

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• "Ideally, you'd pay for that distribution through advertising, but this only works if the scale is large enough (hence the huge amount of ads in glossies like Vanity Fair, Vogue and the like)."
• "The 'glossies' on the KVM (kernel-based virtualization machine) hypervisor are pretty impressive when stacked up to the rivals, at least on the capacity front."
• "A photographer long associated with "The Boston School," a group of artist friends Nan Goldin, Mark Morrisroe, and Jack Pierson, among them who in the late 1970s developed a kind of snapshot aesthetic loosely defined by saturated color and raw intimate portraits, Armstrong has spent the last decade creating highly prized commercial work for fashion editorials, bringing to the glossies and the masses a doleful eye for beauty."