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单词 glamour
释义 glam·our
I. noun
or glam·or \ˈglamə(r)\
(-s)
Etymology: Scots glamour, glamer, alteration of English grammar; from the popular association of erudition with occult practices
1. : a magic spell : bewitchment
 < the girls appeared to be under a glamour — Llewelyn Powys >
 < casting a glamour over the affairs of merchant princes — O.S.J.Gogarty >
2. : an elusive mysteriously exciting and often illusory attractiveness that stirs the imagination and appeals to a taste for the unconventional, the unexpected, the colorful, or the exotic
 < the glamour of the French Foreign Legion >
: a strangely alluring atmosphere of romantic enchantment
 < a beautifully decorated room that was filled with glamour >
: a bewitching intangible irresistibly magnetic charm
 < it was simply the glamour of the unknown that she had felt in him — Ellen Glasgow >
often : personal charm and poise combined with unusual physical and sexual attractiveness
 < an actress radiant with glamour >
II. transitive verb
(glamoured ; glamoured ; glamouring \-m(ə)riŋ\ ; glamours)
Etymology: Scots, from glamour, glamer, n.
1. : to cast a magic spell upon : bewitch
 < soon created such a realm of gorgeous marvel as glamoured the age with fantasy — H.B.Alexander >
2. : glamorize
 < glamoured-up blondes were a dime a dozen — Raymond Chandler >
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