How do you use the word "glamour" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "glamour" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "glamour": Do you think I can handle all that glamour? Being a movie star, she was used to a life of glitz and glamour.

Glamour Meaning

/ˈɡlæmə/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounOriginally, 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.

nounAlluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal).

Sentence Examples

Do you think I can handle all that glamour?

Being a movie star, she was used to a life of glitz and glamour.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

witch hex

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The old Hollywood star still had a lot of ____ and class.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

She was captivated by the ____ of the fashion industry and dreamed of one day becoming a famous model.

Word Origin & History

Borrowed from Scots glamour (“magic”), alteration of Middle English gramere (“grammar”), from Old French gramaire. Doublet of glamoury, gramarye, grammar, and grimoire. A connection has also been suggested with Old Norse glámr (“the moon", also "the name of a ghost”, poetic byname, literally “the pale one”) and glámsýni (“glamour, illusion”, literally “glam-sight”). From Grettir's Saga aka Grettis Saga, one of the Sagas of Icelanders, after the hero has been cursed by Glam, aka Glamr: "...he was become so fearsome a man in the dark, that he durst go nowhither alone after nightfall, for then he seemed to see all kinds of horrors. And that has fallen since into a proverb, that "Glam lends eyes", or gives Glamsight to those who see things nowise as they are."

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"They often murmur to themselves, they speak To one another seldom, for their woe Broods maddening inwardly and scorns to wreak Itself abroad; and if at whiles it grow To 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:

"“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, […], →OCLC, 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:

"When the golden October comes, with its witching of hazy air that makes a glamour for all things and any landscape, we shall see these offspring of poetic myth stretch out beside the creeks, breaking the tender hulls for their magical chincapins, and feeding on them and on the dreams of which they are the talismans." — 1861 October 26, “The Nelumbium Luteum, or Yellow Egyptian Lotus.”, in Thomas Meehan, editor, The Gardner’s Monthly and Advertiser Horticultural, volume III, number 10, 23 North Sixth Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, page 311:

"One of the Qantas staff, a glamour, made her way over to us." — 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 214:

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