gloss vs undress

gloss

verb
  • To give a gloss or sheen to. 

  • To make (something) attractive by deception 

  • Used in a phrasal verb: gloss over (“to cover up a mistake or crime, to treat something with less care than it deserves”). 

  • To add a gloss to (a text). 

  • To become shiny. 

noun
  • A surface shine or luster. 

  • A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance. 

  • 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. 

  • An interpretation by a court of specific point within a statute or case law. 

  • An extensive commentary on some text. 

  • A glossary; a collection of such notes. 

undress

verb
  • To take the dressing, or covering, from. 

  • To remove the clothing of (someone). 

  • To remove one's clothing. 

  • To remove one’s clothing. 

  • To strip of something. 

noun
  • Partial or informal dress for women, as worn in the home rather than in public. 

  • Informal clothing for men, as opposed to formal or ceremonial wear. 

  • Now more specifically, a state of having few or no clothes on. 

How often have the words gloss and undress occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )