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beglamour

verb

Etymology

From be- + glamour.

  1. derived from glámr — “the moon", also "the name of a ghost”
  2. derived from gramaire
  3. derived from gramere — “grammar”
  4. borrowed from glamour — “magic”
  5. prefixed as beglamour — “be + glamour”

Definitions

  1. To make glamorous.

    • In her former blindness she had known him as shiftless Johnny Taylor, tall and lean. That was before the golden dust of pollen had beglamored his rags and her eyes.
    • Lights glitter on wet planks, on the functional bodies of the day's catch, and floodlights beglamour the colored dresses and the pastel beach costumes of the crowds that stroll there.

  2. To bedazzle

    To bedazzle; to deceive as if by magic.

    • “Do,” cried Robin; “sir, she’s an auld withered hag, would spean a foal. Surely she did na sae beglamour your senses as to appear like a winsome young lass?”
    • Imagination entered her second-hand from Nick, who himself had it third-hand, because Romance meanders from peddler to peddler, holding itself out for what it is not and defrauding the be-glamoured and credulous world.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA