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Meanings of glamour in English

Portuguese
encantar
Catalan
embruixar

Cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something.

        encantar
        Portuguese
        importância social
        Catalan
        encís
        Spanish
        atractivo

        Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal)

              importância social
              Usage of glamour in English
              1
              Of course, the glamour groups, out later, all have such mobile informers.
              The Irish Times
              2
              Thus in the glamour of an ancient rearguard reputation the enemy disappeared.
              A Handbook of the Boer War / With General Map of South Africa an...
              3
              Her voice softened; some of the old glamour came back into it.
              Blue Aloes: Stories of South Africa
              4
              She brought the conversation, the glamour and, of course, the 6-inch heels.
              The Irish Times
              5
              There is nothing in the world like it for depth and glamour.
              Nights in London
              6
              And the glamour fell away like the last leaves of the year.
              Arms and the Woman
              7
              Writer feels that when conditions and distances are changed, they lose glamour.
              The new yorker
              8
              The glamour and decorum offers relief from their rough treatment at home.
              The Irish Times
              9
              Iome had taken several endowments, but none of glamour or of Voice.
              Brotherhood of the Wolf
              10
              She's why I want to give up glamour work and go legit.
              Smoke and mirrors: short fictions and illusions
              11
              That's because, my dear, under your New York glamour, you're incredibly vulnerable.
              Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad
              12
              And now you know why I use the glamour! she adds harshly.
              The Jennifer Morgue
              13
              It was bewildering-itwas uncanny; for, delusion or verity, the glamour prevailed.
              The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu
              14
              No glamour of wealth or social prestige can hide his essential ugliness.
              The True Citizen: How to Become One
              15
              It is glamour; people think they see what they do not see.
              The Arena, Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891
              16
              There was glamour upon it, and upon the rest of the world.
              The Second Latchkey
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              Spanish
              atractivo
              Glamour through the time
              Glamour across language varieties
              Australia
              Common
              Ireland
              Common
              United Kingdom
              Less common
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