Glamour
Glamour , noun
[Scot. glamour, glamer; compare Icelandic glámeggdr one who is troubled with the glaucoma (?); or Icelandic glām-sȳni weakness of sight, glamour; glāmr name of the moon, also of a ghost + sȳni sight, akin to English see. Perh., however, a corruption of English 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.
4.
Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, through which it appears delusively magnified or glorified.
It had much of glamour might
To make a lady seem a knight.
Collocations (1)
Glamour gift or Glamour might , the gift or power of producing a glamour. The former is used figuratively, of the gift of fascination peculiar to women.