资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Glamour \Gla"mour\, n. [Scot. glamour, glamer; cf. Icel.
   gl['a]meggdr one who is troubled with the glaucoma (?); or
   Icel. gl[=a]m-s?ni weakness of sight, glamour; gl[=a]mr name
   of the moon, also of a ghost + s?ni sight akin to E. see.
   Perh., however, a corruption of E. gramarye.]
   1. A charm affecting the eye, making objects appear different
      from what they really are.

   2. Witchcraft; magic; a spell. --Tennyson.

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

            The air filled with a strange, pale glamour that
            seemed to lie over the broad valley.  --W. Black.

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

   {Glamour gift}, {Glamour might}, the gift or power of
      producing a glamour. The former is used figuratively, of
      the gift of fascination peculiar to women.

            It had much of glamour might To make a lady seem a
            knight.                               --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.