glamour

Noun · Verb
Synonyms: glamorhexbewitchwitchenchantjinx

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal)Synonyms: glamor

Verb (1)

  1. cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or somethingSynonyms: hexbewitchwitchenchantjinx
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Glamour \Gla"mour\, n. [Scot. glamour, glamer; cf. Icel. gl['a]meggdr one who is troubled with the glaucoma (?); or Icel. gl[=a]m-s[=y]ni weakness of sight, glamour; gl[=a]mr name of the moon, also of a ghost + s[=y]ni sight, akin to E. see. Perh., however, a corruption of E. gramarye.] [1913 Webster]

1.A charm affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are. [1913 Webster]

2.Witchcraft; magic; a spell. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

3.A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are. [1913 Webster]

The air filled with a strange, pale glamour that seemed to lie over the broad valley.— W. Black.[1913 Webster]

4.Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, through which it appears delusively magnified or glorified. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

It had much of glamour might To make a lady seem a knight.— Sir W. Scott.[1913 Webster]
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