Glamour

Noun

 * 1)  an item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance
 * 2) Witchcraft; magic charm; a spell affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are.
 * 3) A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
 * 4) Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, or person, through which it or they appear delusively magnified or glorified.
 * 5)  Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal)

Derived terms

 * glamourous
 * glamorous
 * glamorously
 * glamour model
 * glamour photography
 * glammed up
 * glam rock
 * glam

Adjectives for Glamour
harmless; romantic; laughing; longing; sophisticated; midnight; theatrical; lingering; pictorial; extraneous; fortuitous.

Verbs for Glamour
capture—; create—; deck in—; dim—; invest with—; recapture—; sacrifice—; savor —; surround with—; win with—; yield to —; —allures; —attracts; —awes; —bewitches; —charms; —dazzles; —deceives; —deludes; —enchants; —entrances; —fades; —fascinates; —magnetizes; —stirs; —wears off.

Thesaurus
agacerie, alchemy, allure, allurement, appeal, appealingness, attraction, attractiveness, aura, beguilement, beguiling, bewitchery, bewitchment, blandishment, blaze of glory, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, cajolery, cantrip, captivation, charisma, charm, charmingness, come-hither, curse, delightfulness, divination, enchantment, enravishment, enthrallment, enticement, entrancement, entrapment, envelope, evil eye, exorcism, exquisiteness, fascination, fetishism, flirtation, forbidden fruit, gloriousness, glory, gorgeousness, grace, gramarye, halo, heavenliness, hex, hoodoo, illustriousness, inducement, interest, inveiglement, invitation, invitingness, jinx, juju, jujuism, loveliness, luster, luxury, magic, magic spell, magnetism, malocchio, mystique, natural magic, necromancy, nimbus, numinousness, obeah, radiance, ravishingness, resplendence, resplendency, rune, seducement, seduction, seductiveness, sensuousness, sex appeal, shamanism, snaring, sorcery, sortilege, spell, spellbinding, spellcasting, splendidness, splendor, splendorousness, splendrousness, sublimity, sympathetic magic, tantalization, tantalizingness, temptation, temptingness, thaumaturgia, thaumaturgics, thaumaturgism, thaumaturgy, theurgy, vampirism, voluptuousness, voodoo, voodooism, wanga, weird, whammy, white magic, winning ways, winningness, winsomeness, witchcraft, witchery, witchwork, wizardry, wooing

Alternative forms

 * glamor (Commonwealth-spelling widely accepted across the states.)

Etymology
From gramarye:.

The Scottish term may either be from γραμμάριον:, the weight unit of ingredients used to make magic potions, or an alteration of the English word grammar:.

A connection has also been suggested with Old Norse glámr (poet. “moon,” name of a ghost) and glámsýni:.

Etymology
From glamour:.

Pronunciation

 * or

Noun

 * 1) glamour

Derived terms

 * glamourisere
 * glamourøs

Noun

 * 1) glamour (charm)