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glamourama

noun

Etymology

From glamour + -rama.

  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. suffixed as glamourama — “glamour + rama”

Definitions

  1. A condition or state of flashiness or showiness

    A condition or state of flashiness or showiness; the type of glamour associated with celebrities.

    • In gold-thread lurex ankle-tied harem pants glamourama, their picture seen in every second shop this side of Tropicana, it's the slinky television hoofers at TV2 hoofing and walking tall.
    • The only things piercing the glow of dusk enveloping Avalon Advertising are the searchlights crisscrossing into the air, which adds a Hollywood-like glamourama to the event.

  2. An event or setting noted for its glamour or celebrity status

    • Rumors of Princess Diana's said-to-be-imminent decampment for Manhattan — beyond her scheduled glamourama visit this week — are driving New York's celebrity-mad, boldface residents into a frenzy.
    • The cartoon is set in the lovey-dovey glamourama of an imaginary Elizabethan theatre company modelled on Shakespeare's men, where even William Shakespeare is a bisexual poetaster writing lovesick verse for the Earl of Southampton.
    • Snoozefest? I hear whispers that this year's Moogfest didn't quite capture the eclectic energy of 2004's glamourama

  3. Extremely glamorous, especially in a tacky way.

    • And the gold really shows the texture of the blocks; by night, they get very glamourama.
    • Cory couldn't help but wonder what Ms. Calloway's story was, why someone so glamourama was riding herd over a posse of captive graffiti artists.

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