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glamazon

American  
[glam-uh-zahn] / ˈglæm əˌzɑn /

noun

  • glamazons
    plural
  1. a woman who is beautiful and glamorous as well as being tall, strong, or powerful.


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Princess Gollum, does one of her signature makeup looks, like morphing into an extraterrestrial glamazon with head-to-toe bubble-gum-pink skin, she can feel her inner child screaming with glee.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 14, 2022

When one female contestant shoots a dirty look at the glamazon who just tagged her, there is just a hint of trash talk and escalated conflict.

From Washington Post May 19, 2020

John’s second daughter, from his second marriage, is very much the tall, blond, Californian glamazon, having moved to the US as a child with her mother, the American actor Barbara Trentham.

From The Guardian Aug. 15, 2018

Rippon has described himself on Twitter as a “glamazon bitch ready for the runway,” but it takes more than feistiness—and some serious skating artistry—to achieve glamazon status: You also need some killer costumes.

From Slate Feb. 15, 2018

Charles landed a regular modeling contract with MAC Cosmetics — the advertising campaign featured him in full glamazon drag, alongside the tag line “I am the MAC girl.”

From New York Times Jan. 24, 2018

Since finishing in second place on “American Idol” in 2009, Adam Lambert has established himself as one of pop’s most reliable glamazons: a big, showy voice delivering big, dramatic songs about big, clearly defined emotions.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2025

Manfred Thierry Mugler, the boundary-pushing French couturier whose glamazons and fembots helped define fashion in the 1980s and ’90s and who died earlier this year, famously hated retrospectives.

From New York Times Nov. 17, 2022

These are the ghosts of their former selves: glamazons in mirror-encrusted costumes performing the number tirelessly and perfectly.

From New York Times Mar. 31, 2021

Other notable black dress icons include the quartet of grumpy glamazons in the video for Robert Palmer’s Addicted to Love.

From The Guardian Jul. 26, 2018

As for happier allusions, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and Beyonce Knowles added baby bumps to their almost spectral silhouettes, though many women balk at the immodest challenge of impersonating such glamazons.

From Washington Post Oct. 28, 2011

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