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Glamour

Glamour Meaning & Definition
Glamour Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Glamour?

[n] alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal)
[v] cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something

Synonyms | Synonyms for Glamour: bewitch | enchant | glamor | hex | jinx | witch

Related Terms | Find terms related to Glamour: agacerie | alchemy | allure | allurement | appeal | appealingness | attraction | attractiveness | aura | beguilement | beguiling | bewitchery | bewitchment | blandishment | blaze of glory | brightness | brilliance | brilliancy | cajolery | cantrip | captivation | charisma | charm | charmingness | come-hither | curse | delightfulness | divination | enchantment | enravishment | enthrallment | enticement | entrancement | entrapment | envelope | evil eye | exorcism | exquisiteness | fascination | fetishism | flirtation | forbidden fruit | gloriousness | glory | gorgeousness | grace | gramarye | halo | heavenliness | hex | hoodoo | illustriousness | inducement | interest | inveiglement | invitation | invitingness | jinx | juju | jujuism | loveliness | luster | luxury | magic | magic spell | magnetism | malocchio | mystique | natural magic | necromancy | nimbus | numinousness | obeah | radiance | ravishingness | resplendence | resplendency | rune | seducement | seduction | seductiveness | sensuousness | sex appeal | shamanism | snaring | sorcery | sortilege | spell | spellbinding | spellcasting | splendidness | splendor | splendorousness | splendrousness | sublimity | sympathetic magic | tantalization | tantalizingness | temptation | temptingness | thaumaturgia | thaumaturgics | thaumaturgism | thaumaturgy | theurgy | vampirism | voluptuousness | voodoo | voodooism | wanga | weird | whammy | white magic | winning ways | winningness | winsomeness | witchcraft | witchery | witchwork | wizardry | wooing

See Also | beauty | becharm | charm | spell | voodoo

Glamour In Webster's Dictionary

\Gla"mour\, n. [Scot. glamour, glamer; cf. Icel. gl['a]meggdr one who is troubled with the glaucoma (?); or Icel. gl[=a]m-s?ni weakness of sight, glamour; gl[=a]mr name of the moon, also of a ghost + s?ni sight akin to E. see. Perh., however, a corruption of E. gramarye.] 1. A charm affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are. 2. Witchcraft; magic; a spell. --Tennyson. 3. 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. --W. Black. 4. 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. --Sir W. Scott.

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