glamour
or glam·or
- the quality of fascinating, alluring, or attracting, especially by a combination of charm and good looks.
- excitement, adventure, and unusual activity: the glamour of being an explorer.
- magic or enchantment; spell; witchery.
- suggestive or full of glamour; glamorous: a glamour job in television; glamour stocks.
Origin of glamour
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Related Words for glamour
beauty, color, charisma, allure, charm, prestige, enchantment, allurement, fascination, romance, attraction, magnetism, interest, appeal, razzle-dazzle, bewitchment, ravishmentExamples from the Web for glamour
Contemporary Examples of glamour
I said that mixture of glamour and vulnerability is potent, especially if you can sense the vulnerability.
If confidence and strength were instilled in her at a young age, glamour was something she pursued.
The glamour of the seaside resort has long since been eclipsed by spectacular violence.
Some on the Internet took umbrage with your comments to Glamour that your appearance has “never been my moneymaker.”
Anna Kendrick on ‘Pitch Perfect 2,’ Drunken Horror Stories, and Singin’ PharrellMarlow Stern
July 24, 2014
Her Facebook page describes her as “an aspiring model looking to break into the world of glamour modelling.”
Historical Examples of glamour
But—if indeed, you are dazzled by the glamour of a title—do not be too confident of his fealty.
The Bacillus of BeautyHarriet Stark
But what did anything matter, if the glamour of the Nile was in our blood?
It Happened in EgyptC. N. Williamson
Yet the fascinating possibility is like a taste for drink, or the glamour of cards.
Meadow GrassAlice Brown
There is a mystery at the heart of the book that throws over it the glamour of romance.
The HarborErnest Poole
But the 'glamour' of the moon is not a mere poetic invention or a lover's fancy.
StoryologyBenjamin Taylor
glamour
sometimes US glamor
- charm and allure; fascination
- fascinating or voluptuous beauty, often dependent on artifice
- (as modifier)a glamour girl
- archaic a magic spell; charm
Word Origin for glamour
Word Origin and History for glamour
1720, Scottish, "magic, enchantment" (especially in phrase to cast the glamor), a variant of Scottish gramarye "magic, enchantment, spell," alteration of English grammar (q.v.) with a medieval sense of "any sort of scholarship, especially occult learning." Popularized by the writings of Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832). Sense of "magical beauty, alluring charm" first recorded 1840.
1814, from glamour (n.). Related: Glamoured; glamouring.