glamour

• n. 魅力，魔力；迷人的美
• vt. 迷惑，迷住

來自grammar的拚寫變體，來自grammar的古義，神秘學。引申義著迷，魅惑，魅力。

glamour

glamour: [18] Unlikely as it may seem, glamour is ultimately the same word as grammar. This seems to have been used in the Middle Ages for ‘learning’ in general, and hence, by superstitious association, for ‘magic’ (there is no actual record of this, but the related gramarye was employed in that sense). Scottish English had the form glamour for grammar (l is phonetically close to r, and the two are liable to change places), used for ‘enchantment’, or a ‘spell’, for whose introduction to general English Sir Walter Scott was largely responsible.

The literal sense ‘enchanted’ has now slipped into disuse, gradually replaced since the early 19th century by ‘delusive charm’, and latterly ‘fashionable attractiveness’.
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glamour (n.)

1720, Scottish, "magic, enchantment" (especially in phrase to cast the glamor), a variant of Scottish gramarye "magic, enchantment, spell," said to be an alteration of English grammar (q.v.) in a specialized use of that word's medieval sense of "any sort of scholarship, especially occult learning," the latter sense attested from c. 1500 in English but said to have been more common in Medieval Latin. Popularized in English by the writings of Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832). Sense of "magical beauty, alluring charm" first recorded 1840. As that quality of attractiveness especially associated with Hollywood, high-fashion, celebrity, etc., by 1939.

Jamieson's 1825 supplement to his "Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language" has glamour-gift "the power of enchantment; metaph. applied to female fascination." Jamieson's original edition (1808) looked to Old Norse for the source of the word. Zoëga's Old Icelandic dictionary has glám-sýni "illusion," probably from the same root as gleam.

glamour (v.)

1814, "to enchant, charm, bewitch," from glamour (n.). Related: Glamoured; glamouring.

1. "Basic Instinct" catapulted her to top status among Hollywood's glamour goddesses.

《本能》使她躍至一線，成功躋身好萊塢耀眼的女明星之列。

來自柯林斯例句

2. She is a perfect incarnation of glamour.

她是魅力的完美化身。

來自柯林斯例句

3. hopeful young actors and actresses dazzled by the glamour of Hollywood

為好萊塢的魅力神魂顛倒、懷抱希望的年輕演員

來自《權威詞典》

4. the glitz and glamour of the music scene

表麵光輝燦爛的樂壇

來自《權威詞典》

5. We need someone with youth, glamour and pizzazz.

我們需要一位年富力強、魅力十足、風度翩翩的人。

來自《權威詞典》