glamour Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal)
    glamor.
  2. verb cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something
    bewitch; hex; witch; enchant; jinx.

WordNet

Gla"mour noun
Etymology
Scot. glamour, glamer; cf. Icel. glámeggdr one who is troubled with the glaucoma (?); or Icel. glam-sni weakness of sight, glamour; glamr name of the moon, also of a ghost + sni sight akin to E. see. Perh., however, a corruption of E. gramarye.
Definitions
  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.
    It had much of glamour might To make a lady seem a knight. Sir W. Scott.

Webster 1913