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This rather pleasing etymology stood for a while but was discredited when R.M.W. Dixon failed to find an etymon in a Queensland language, despite a brave attempt to locate the origin in a putative Jagara word which was glossed as wandering white man.
Evita: In the New Republic , historian Enrique Krauze lists the horrors of Perónism glossed over by the musical and film: the torture and murder of political opponents, often under Nazi tutelage; the sheltering of war criminals, possibly for personal profit; the destruction of the Argentine economy; the laying of the cornerstone for the "Dirty Wars" of the 1970s and 1980s.
The review of my Bloomsbury Dictionary of Dedications [XVII,4] made no mention of the fact that the quoted dedications are glossed or explicated.
Visitors as well as locals who are faced with a barrage of acronyms in everyday usage will find many of them glossed in these pages.
The headword toad is duly glossed, as padda, karta , and then--quite needlessly--illustrated, with this remarkably elucidating sentence: the toad was delighted to see his mother again .