glam

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Queen is known as a glam-rock band with a harder edge, and this aspect of its musicianship is brought to life in "Time to Shine."

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  1. Loud talking; a noise; a cry; a shout; a call. Much glam & gle glent vp ther-inne, Aboute the fyre vpon flet. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), I. 1652. The god man [Lot] glyfte with that glam, and gloped for noyse. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 849. Then Godeʒ glam to hem glod that gladed hem alle, Bede hem drawe to the dor, delyuer hem he wolde. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 499.
  2. The clump or otter-shell, Lutraria elliptica, a bivalve mollusk. [Devonshire, Eng.]
  3. A clamp used in the old method of castrating horses.

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  1. Middle English, from Icelandic glam, modern glamr, a sound, noise, clash, = Swedish glam, chat, talk, = Danish glam, a barking; cf. Icelandic glama, talk, twaddle, = Swedish glamma, talk, chat, = Danish glamme, bark.
  2. A dial. variant of clam.
 

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