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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Gla·mour n.
 1. A charm affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are.
 2. Witchcraft; magic; a spell.
 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.