glamour
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
glamour
- (countable) An item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance.
- Witchcraft; magic charm; a spell affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are.
- 1882, James Thomson (poet, born 1834), “The City of Dreadful Night”:
- They often murmur to themselves, they speak
To one another seldom, for their woe
Broods maddening inwardly and scorns to wreak
Itself abroad; and if at whiles it grow
To frenzy which must rave, none heeds the clamour,
Unless there waits some victim of like glamour,
To rave in turn, who lends attentive show.
- They often murmur to themselves, they speak
- 1882, James Thomson (poet, born 1834), “The City of Dreadful Night”:
- A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
- Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, or person, through which it or they appear delusively magnified or glorified.
- (uncountable) Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal).
- glamour magazines; a glamour model
- French: charme
- Russian: гламур
- Spanish: fascinación, elegancia, encanto
glamour (glamours, present participle glamouring; past and past participle glamoured)
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