n. One who provides explanatory glosses, especially a scholar or scribe who writes notes in the margins of or between the lines of a text. [Medieval Latin glōssātor, from glōssāre, to gloss, from Latin glōssa, foreign word requiring explanation; see GLOSS2.] |
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