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    Who is responsible for popularizing the word glamour in standard literary English?

    Question #103138. Asked by HistEng. (Feb 18 09 11:50 PM)


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    		glamour

    1720, "magic, enchantment" (especially in phrase to cast the glamour), a variant of Scot. gramarye "magic, enchantment, spell," alt. of Eng. grammar (q.v.) with a medieval sense of "any sort of scholarship, especially occult learning." Popularized by the writings of Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832). Sense of "magical beauty, alluring charm" first recorded 1840. Glamorous is 1882 (slang shortening glam first attested 1936); glamorize is 1936.

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/glamour


    Feb 19 09, 1:35 AM

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