Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Enchantment: same as glamour.

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  • noun obsolete magic

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Examples

  • “I wanted no glamoury flum tricks of a Profligate of Canny to diddle my sire; I have blaze enough to keep him charmed, and since the lighting I burn even heavier.”

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • “I wanted no glamoury flum tricks of a Profligate of Canny to diddle my sire; I have blaze enough to keep him charmed, and since the lighting I burn even heavier.”

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • It wraps you up like your old favorite blanket you forgot about, maybe not as glittery or glamoury as those foreign cities that we fall for, but constant and cozy in another way.

    Packing up. Again. Michele 2007

  • “I wanted no glamoury flum tricks of a Profligate of Canny to diddle my sire; I have blaze enough to keep him charmed, and since the lighting I burn even heavier.”

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • Sixteen miles would have been nothing in the Valley; in these green and glamoury lowlands they became like fifty.

    The Long Roll Mary Johnston 1903

  • Now, in that comparative leisure of his stormy life, he was naturally most open to the influence of a charm more potent than all the glamoury of Hilda.

    Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • And indeed, even to myself there seems some witchcraft, some glamoury in what has chanced.

    Eugene Aram — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • And indeed, even to myself there seems some witchcraft, some glamoury in what has chanced.

    Eugene Aram — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • The fascination of the basilisk can scarcely more stun and paralyse its victim than the look of this stranger charmed, with the appalling glamoury of horror, the eye and soul of Alice Darvil.

    Ernest Maltravers — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • The Scot who wrote this thing may have thought of a day when he saw beauty in the face of a darling sin; but, if so, it is evident that his sight recovered from that glamoury.

    Kenelm Chillingly — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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