Definition of "glamour"

glamour

/ˈɡlæmə/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural glamours
1. (uncountable) Originally, enchantment; magic charm; especially, the effect of a spell that causes one to see objects in a form that differs from reality, typically to make filthy, ugly, or repulsive things seem beauteous.
  Quotations
  They often murmur to themselves, they speakTo one another seldom, for their woeBroods maddening inwardly and scorns to wreakItself abroad; and if at whiles it growTo frenzy which must rave, none heeds the clamour,Unless there waits some victim of like glamour,To rave in turn, who lends attentive show.
  1882, James Thomson (B. V.), The City of Dreadful Night
2. (uncountable) Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal).
3. (uncountable) Any excitement, appeal, or attractiveness associated with a person, place, or thing; that which makes something appealing.
  Quotations
  “The North Pole was one of these places, I remember. Well, I haven’t been there yet, and shall not try now. The glamour’s off.”
  1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], part I, page 197
  Boys have not lost their love for adventure, and still have `itchy feet.' Many are seeking glamor jobs, want to be writers, detectives, seamen.
  1950 May 7, The Daily Telegraph, Sydney, page 13, column 3
4. Any artificial interest in, or association with, objects, or persons, through which they appear delusively magnified or glorified.
5. A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
6. (countable) An item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance.
verb
third-person singular simple present glamours, present participle glamouring, simple past and past participle glamoured
1. (transitive) To enchant; to bewitch.