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David Bowie's rock genre, informally
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glam
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
slang shortening of glamorous , first attested 1936. Glam rock attested by 1974. Glamazon "glamourous, dominant woman" attested by 1985 (see amazon ).
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Glam is a studio album by German electronica group Mouse on Mars . It was released in 1998. It was recorded in 1996 for the purpose of being a soundtrack for a film of the same name, but both the film and the soundtrack were rejected by the studio. It was ...
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Not the super-expensive kind the Glams wear (which tends to be made of handmade papers and be hand-painted and extravagantly adorned with the more expensive bric-a-brac), but a relatively simple affair, boasting lots of pleats & a tall ruff standing up around her face & the wildest of sleeves (features that would never work with cloth), & adorned with a few flat round mirrors about two antimeters or so in diameter, & glitter & spun sugar sculptures & who knows what else.
When they sat down to eat, all obediently be-wigged like reluctant delegates to a Glam Rock convention, they discovered placecards between the cutlery, bearing what looked worryingly like lyrics.