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glamour

Glamour is the quality of being fascinating, alluring, or charming If you've watched Marilyn Monroe on a movie screen, then you've witnessed glamour!

The word glamour originally referred to a magical or even unreal charm or beauty attached to a person or an object. Today you can still glamour, or cast a spell over, someone, but you probably won’t. More often glamour is now used to mean a certain thrilling or attractive appeal -– especially sex appeal. Glamour is more than just good looks — the right clothing, jewelry, attitude, or friends can produce glamour — the mark of a star.

DEFINITIONS OF: glamour

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n alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal)

Synonyms:
glamor
Type of:
beauty
the qualities that give pleasure to the senses

v cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something

Synonyms:
bewitch, enchant, hex, jinx, witch
Types:
voodoo
bewitch by or as if by a voodoo
spell
place under a spell
Type of:
becharm, charm
control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft
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