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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

... a few only of the statements in one of the articles entitled "The Trader's Prospects". It is an article so nicely written that it is hard to shake off the glamour of it and get to facts. ...

— The Call Of The South - 1908 • Louis Becke

... prevent Russia from getting through the Bosporus to the Mediterranean, and thus endangering her route to her Eastern possessions. The French emperor fought to avenge Moscow, and to render his new imperial throne attractive to his people by surrounding it with the glamour of successful war. Sardinia was led to join England and France through the policy of the far-sighted Cavour, who would thus have the Sardinians win the gratitude of these powers, so that in the next conflict with Austria the Italian patriots ...

— A General History for Colleges and High Schools • P. V. N. Myers

... sighing, and the whippowil her call, Through the moon-lit mists are flying dusky shadows silent all. Lo from out the waters foaming—from the cavern deep and dread— Through the glamour and the gloaming, comes a spirit of the dead. Sad she seems, her tresses raven ...

— Legends of the Northwest • Hanford Lennox Gordon

... her not, as to her soul All the desert's glamour stole, That a tear for childhood's loss Dropped upon ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 5, No. 28, February, 1860 • Various

... face, but, as his figure loomed darkly against the moon, Edith did not see it. The caressing glamour of the light revealed the sad sweetness of her mouth, but presently her lips curved upward ...

— Master of the Vineyard • Myrtle Reed

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