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Glamour might

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.]

  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.

    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.

    It had much of glamour might To make a lady seem a knight.
    --Sir W. Scott.

Usage examples of "glamour might".

A man who took glamour might be terribly handsome, but Borenson had never felt any sexual attraction to such a man, even Raj Ahten's astonishing beauty left him cold-though he knew others who could not say the same.

The whole world had a sparkle, a sharpness, that he could not recall noticing earlier, but some of that glamour might be the afterglow of a very narrow escape.

To a dangerous trade some glamour might still cling, and he refused to allow that.