glamour gift

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glamour gift - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Glamour \Gla"mour\, n. [Scot. glamour, glamer; cf. Icel.
     gl['a]meggdr one who is troubled with the glaucoma (?); or
     Icel. gl[=a]m-s[=y]ni weakness of sight, glamour; gl[=a]mr
     name of the moon, also of a ghost + s[=y]ni sight, akin to E.
     see. Perh., however, a corruption of E. gramarye.]
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     1. A charm affecting the eye, making objects appear different
        from what they really are.
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     2. Witchcraft; magic; a spell. --Tennyson.
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     3. A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear
        different from what they really are.
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              The air filled with a strange, pale glamour that
              seemed to lie over the broad valley.  --W. Black.
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     4. Any artificial interest in, or association with, an
        object, through which it appears delusively magnified or
        glorified.
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     Glamour gift, Glamour might, the gift or power of
        producing a glamour. The former is used figuratively, of
        the gift of fascination peculiar to women.
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              It had much of glamour might
              To make a lady seem a knight.         --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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