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noun

Glamour n.

A charm affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are.

Witchcraft; magic; a spell.

A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are. "The air filled with a strange, pale glamour that seemed to lie over the broad valley."

Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, through which it appears delusively magnified or glorified.

Glamour gift, Glamour might, the gift or power of producing a glamour. The former is used figuratively, of the gift of fascination peculiar to women. "It had much of glamour might To make a lady seem a knight."

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Etymology of 'Glamour'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Glamour" Quotes from Famous Books

... joyous change Like wizard's glamour-spell? Wishes not always fruitless range, And sometimes ...

— The Poetical Works of George MacDonald in Two Volumes, Volume I • George MacDonald

... any kind broke the silence, no handclap of welcome, no murmur of applause; just plain, simple astonishment, the kind that takes your breath away. That Kling's little girl stood before them, nobody believed. O'Day had fooled them with this new vision, just as he had bewitched them by the glamour of the decorated room. Only when a few simple words of welcome fell from her lips were the flood-gates opened. Then a shout went up which set the candles winking—a shout only surpassed in volume and good cheer when Felix began handing up the little packages ...

— Felix O'Day • F. Hopkinson Smith

... life—the killing of formidable competitors, whether brute or human—is honourable in the highest degree. And this high office of slaughter, as an expression of the slayer's prepotence, casts a glamour of worth over every act of slaughter and over all the tools and accessories of the act. Arms are honourable, and the use of them, even in seeking the life of the meanest creatures of the fields, becomes a honorific employment. At the same time, employment in industry becomes correspondingly ...

— The Theory of the Leisure Class • Thorstein Veblen

... no glamour of romance over that past. It was all hard, prosy, terrible fact. The earth's crust was less stable than now, the upheavals and subsidences and earthquakes more frequent, the warring of the elements more fierce and incessant, ...

— Time and Change • John Burroughs

... far end of the room. The old people, among whom was Mrs. Agar's husband, were settling down to a game of whist. Mrs. Agar was leaning forward with considerable interest. This was not a mere passing curiosity to hear further of a country and of an event which have not lost their glamour yet. ...

— From One Generation to Another • Henry Seton Merriman

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