Definition of Glamour

Glamour

A charm affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are.

Witchcraft; magic; a spell.

A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.

Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, through which it appears delusively magnified or glorified.

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Glamour Quotations

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.
Eminem

The glamour of it all! New York! America!
Charlie Chaplin

I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.
Lady Gaga

I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.
Maynard James Keenan

Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.
Jessica Savitch

For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.
Jessica Savitch

I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
Barbra Streisand

Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.
Loretta Young

Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.
Loretta Young

I have very talented people dress me and put my makeup on, stuff like that. But I do love that look, and I think it's maybe because I grew up on that old glamour.
Charlize Theron

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.
David Byrne

Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.
Marlene Dietrich

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.
Patty Duke

Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.
Lenny Kravitz

It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world.
Minnie Pearl

If you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is.
Portia de Rossi

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
John Berger

Well, I don't find glamour and clothing relevant.
Tea Leoni

Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
Zoe Saldana

I don't mind the sparkle - I think it's kind of a tradition in skating. I don't think the men really need sparkles, but for the women it's part of the glamour of our sport.
Kristi Yamaguchi

But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, there was more more products and technology. But for me the nightlife was winding down, the glamour, the fun.
Cesar Romero

I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses.
Anthony Michael Hall

We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour, no, 'I want to look like them or have that lifestyle', because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn't think, 'Ooh, a movie star's birthday!' I just thought, 'What?'
Christina Hendricks

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
Maggie Gallagher

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
Israel Zangwill

They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
Adam Garcia

You're surfing with all this glamour, and a lot of people are talking about Gwyneth, JLo, and Cameron.
Steven Cojocaru

There is the glamour side of it, which allows you to meet great variety of people with whom you simply can have a good time, but there's also the sad side of it that drags you into a superficial and artificial world.
Karolina Kurkova

If you are in the job for glamour, you're in for the shock of your life. The media is a huge shark pool.
Trisha Goddard

I'm just not very good at glamour... It doesn't come easily to me.
Elize Du Toit

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Glamour Translations

glamour in Afrikaans is gesag
glamour in Dutch is gezag, prestige, autoriteit
glamour in Norwegian is glans, fortryllelse

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