glamour

About glamour

In the field of cultural studies, glamour is the impression of attraction or fascination that a particularly luxurious or elegant appearance creates, an impression which intensifies reality. Usually, a person, event, location, technology, or product such as a piece of clothing can be glamorous or add glamour. "Glamour" originally referred to a magic spell, an illusion said to be cast by witches.

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Glamour is the impression of attraction or fascination that a particularly luxurious or elegant appearance creates.

Glamour or Glamor may also refer to:

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Common uses

Glamour photography, a genre of photography in which the subjects are portrayed in attractive poses ranging from fully clothed to nude

Shapeshifting, the ability to physically transform oneself through unnatural means

Film

Glamour (1931 film), a British film

Glamour (1934 film), an American film

Glamour (2000 film), a Hungarian film

Music

Notable quotes

“She had always thought she would be like her father, and fancied a tall, dark, and handsome face.”
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon, The New Monthly Magazine (1833), 'The Story of Hester Malpas'
“Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock. Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue.”
— Theognis of Megara Line 215.
“All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.”
— John Dryden, Hind and the Panther.
“All is not golde that outward shewith bright.”
— John Lydgate, On the Mutability of Human Affairs.
“Whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.”
— Matthew, XXIII. 27.
“Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.”
— An immense, misshapen, marvelous monster whose eye is out.

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