Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- 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.
adjective
- suggestive or full of glamour; glamorous: a glamour job in television; glamour stocks.
noun
- charm and allure; fascination
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- fascinating or voluptuous beauty, often dependent on artifice
- (as modifier)a glamour girl
- archaic a magic spell; charm
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.