glamour

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  1. noun An air of compelling charm, romance, and excitement, especially when delusively alluring.
  2. noun Archaic A magic spell; enchantment.
  3. usage note
    Many words, such as honor, vapor, and labor, are usually spelled with an -or ending in American English but with an -our ending in British English. The preferred spelling of glamour, however, is -our, making it an exception to the usual American practice. The adjective is more often spelled glamorous in both American and British usage.

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  • Of this Sammler was not sure He didn't give a damn for the glamour, the style, the art of criminals. —  Mr. Sammler's Planet
  • "Properly it's called a glamour, not a spell Oh, I know that one!" —  Trillium 05 - Lady of the Trillium by Marion Zimmer Bradley (v1.0) (html).html
  • Aaron chose shades that represent the glamour, the energy and the passion of Paris -- indigo blue, bright red and luxurious gold. —  Beauty Snob - Beauty Secrets and Tips
  • And I think she has got this new, redefined kind of glamour, which is not over-the-top, expensive, old guard glamour. —  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
  • While Formula One has always been synonymous with big money and glamour, the flamboyant Branson, who launched his career with Virgin Records in the 1970s, feels it would benefit from more "rock'n'roll."
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  1. Scots, magic spell, alteration of grammar (from the association of learning with magic).

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  1. Also glamor and, more correctly, glamer (the termination -our,-or, falsely simulating the termination properly so written); Scots glamer, glamor, glamour, also extended glamerie, glammerie, glaumerie; a variant of gramer, gramere, gramery, gramory, gramarye, enchantment, a particular use of Middle English gramer, etc., also glomery, grammar: see grammar, gramary, glomery. The word has heretofore been otherwise explained: for example (erroneously), as from Icelandic glāmr, a poet, name for the moon, Glāmr, the name of a famous ghost in the story of Grettir (Grettis Saga); in comp. glām-sy¯ni, illusion (sy¯ni, sight); prob. from the same root as gleam, glim, glimmer. Some association with gleam, glim, glimmer, may have influenced the change from gramer to glamer; but the same change appears in the Middle English glomery, grammar. The word glamour, taken up by Scott from its use in some popular ballads, was by him made familiar in general literature.
  2. from glamour, n.
 

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