Meaning of beglamour | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To make glamorous.
2. To bedazzle; to deceive as if by magic.

Examples

“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.”

““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?””

“It is not necessary to follow⟳ the wild goose chase⟳ which the Rev. George’s imagination ran from this starting-point to the moment when he was suddenly awakened, by an unmistakable symptom, to the fact that he was being outwitted and beglamoured, like⟳ the utter novice he was, by a power which he believed to be the devil.”

“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.”

“1972, Martha Rofheart, Cry⟳ ‘God for Harry’ (published in the U.S. as Fortune Made His Sword), London: Book Club Associates, 1972, Book 2, Chapter 7, p. 156, It was easy to see⟳ how he had beglamored the youth of a nation.”

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