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▪ I. glamour, n.|ˈglæmə(r)|
Also 8 glamer, glamor, glammar, 9 Sc. glaumour.
[Originally Sc., introduced into the literary language by Scott. A corrupt form of grammar; for the sense cf. gramarye (and F. grimoire), and for the form glomery.]
1. Magic, enchantment, spell; esp. in the phrase to cast the glamour over one (see quot. 1721).
17..Johnny Faa in Ritson Sc. Songs (1794) II. 177 As soon as they saw her well far'd face, They coost the glamer o'er her. 1720Ramsay Rise & Fall Stocks 152 Like Belzie when he nicks a witch, He..Casts o'er her een his cheating glamour. 1721― Gloss. to Poems s.v., When devils, wizards or jugglers deceive the sight, they are said to cast glamour o'er the eyes of the spectator. 1789Burns Capt. Grose's Peregrin. iv, Ye gipsy-gang that deal in glamor, And you deep read in hell's black grammar, Warlocks and witches. 1830Scott Demonol. iii, This species of Witchcraft is well known in Scotland as the glamour, or deceptio visus, and was supposed to be a special attribute of the race of Gipsies. 1859Tennyson Enid 743 That maiden in the tale, Whom Gwydion made by glamour out of flowers. 1860Reade Cloister & H. I. 98 He knows father and daughter both. They cast their glamour on him. 1894D. C. Murray Making of Novelist 199 The man had a glamour for me and drew me with the attraction of a magnet.
2. a. A magical or fictitious beauty attaching to any person or object; a delusive or alluring charm.
1840Hood Kilmansegg, Fancy Ball xxxvi, For to paint that scene of glamour It would need the Great Enchanter's charm. 1863Ouida Held in Bondage 97, I know how quickly the glamour fades in the test of constant intercourse. 1874Green Short Hist. v. §1. 213 A sudden burst of military glory threw its glamour over the age of Cressy and Poitiers.
b. Charm; attractiveness; physical allure, esp. feminine beauty; freq. attrib. (see sense 3). colloq. (orig. U.S.).
1937Daily Tel. 26 Oct. 8/5 His hero is just another Glamour Guy. 1947Partridge Usage & Abusage 353/1 A girl or a gigolo may possess glamour: and it makes no matter whether the girl is glamorous in her own right or by the catch-guinea arts of her dressmaker or her cinematographic producer. 1951M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 94/1 The trade motto ‘Bodies by Fisher’..insists on the close relation of motorcar glamour to sex. 1958Woman 22 Feb. 8/2 Kitchen needs glamour badly; looks too antiseptic due to all-over white painted walls.
3. attrib. and Comb., as glamour gift, glamour might; glamour-learned ppl. a.; glamour boy, a young man who possesses glamour; spec. (slang) a member of the R.A.F.; glamour girl, a glamorous young woman; a ‘pin-up girl’; glamour puss slang, a glamorous person.
1939M. Brinig Anne Minton's Life (1940) 91 People do him a great injustice by calling him a glamour boy. 1941New Statesman 30 Aug. 218/3 Glamour boys, R.A.F., especially flying crews. 1942T. Rattigan Flare Path i. 105 I'm going to pour it on with a bucket. If I can't look like the screen's great lover, I can at least smell like a glamour boy. 1954M. Croft Spare Rod i. v. 36 Those are your two glamour boys. You can't afford to leave them alone in the classroom or you'll have half the girls in as well.
1813Picken Pastoral Eulogy 129 May be some wily lass has had the airt, Wi' spells, an' charms, to win our Robin's heart; An' hauds him, wi' her Glaumour-gift, sae fell.
1935Mademoiselle Dec. 66/1 Horrible grimacing pictures of the Glamour Girl. 1936[see glam]. 1940Illustr. London News CXCVI. 464/2 There emerged the new glamour-girl, as one must call her nowadays, as thin and slender as a flake of silver leaf, as blanched as an almond, as ‘platinum’ as a wedding-ring. 1956Glamour girl [see answer n. 6 b].
1819G. S. Faber Dispensations (1823) II. 94 During the reign of our glamour-learned first James.
1805Scott Last Minstr. iii. ix, It had much of glamour might, Could make a ladye seem a knight.
1952N. Streatfeild Aunt Clara 95 Though Aunt Bess is an angel, nobody could say she was a glamour-puss. 1959C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 54 ‘Now listen, glamour puss,’ I said, flicking his bottom with my towel. 1968Times 6 Jan. 17/6 As every good Butterfly must, she develops visibly and vocally from glamourpuss to grand tragic heroine.
▸ attrib. euphem. (orig. Brit.). Of or relating to nude or topless modelling or photography, as glamour model, glamour photography, etc.
1958(title) Glamour Guide supplement..1/6. 1967J. E. Hollands & L. Danells (title) Pocket guide to glamour photography... A handy reference for glamour models and photographers. 1981Times 16 Sept. 25/5 (advt.) We are looking for new faces for fashion, photographic and glamour modelling. 1989Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 29 Apr. 10/2 Glamour modelling which has become extremely popular worldwide in the last decade is due mainly to England's top selling daily newspaper, The Sun. 2004K. Price Being Jordan x. 77, I thought that I looked flat-chested and not as sexy as the other girls on the glamour circuit.
▪ II. glamour, v.|ˈglæmə(r)|
[f. prec. n.]
a. trans. To affect with glamour; to charm, enchant.
1832–52W. Fergusson in Whistle-Binkie (Scot. Songs) Ser. iii. 109 For ither scenes, and ither charms, Hae glamour'd Willie's een. 1835J. P. Kennedy Horse Shoe R. xxxiv. (1860) 382 He was wrought upon, bewildered, glamoured (to use a most expressive Scotch phrase) by the remembrance of a sickly dream. 1889Times 28 Oct. 5/6 The Greeks..glamoured with the prospect of an addition to their European consequence and greatness.
b. To glamorize. Const. up. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
1951L. Hobson Celebrity (1953) xv. 243 It's lost some of the subtlety of the book..and they've glamoured it up a little too much. 1958B. Ruck Third Love Lucky ix. 58 Where was his sweet, sporting, glowing, skating partner with such pretty natural ways? All glamoured up and spoiled.
Hence ˈglamouring ppl. a.
1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) I. xxi. 182 The mountain's side along Sweeps an infuriate glamouring Song. |