glamour : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: glamour	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for glamour
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
glamour n alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal) [syn: glamor, glamour] v cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something Synonym(s): hex, bewitch, glamour, witch, enchant, jinx
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Glamour \Gla"mour\, n. [Scot. glamour, glamer; cf. Icel. gl[a0]meggdr one who is troubled with the glaucoma (?); or Icel. gl[be]m-s[?]ni weakness of sight, glamour; gl[be]mr name of the moon, also of a ghost + s[?]ni 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 glamour might To make a lady seem a knight. --Sir W. Scott.