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Webster 1913 Edition
Glamour
Gla′mour
,Noun.
[Scot.
glamour
, glamer
; cf. Icel. glámeggdr
one who is troubled with the glaucoma (?); or Icel. glām-sȳni
weakness of sight, glamour; glāmr
name of the moon, also of a ghost + sȳni
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
To make a lady seem a knight.
glamour might
To make a lady seem a knight.
Sir W. Scott.