glamorful

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glamorful (comparative more glamorful, superlative most glamorful)

  1. Alternative spelling of glamourful.
    • 1912, Alice Calhoun Haines, “A Footstep in the Sand”, in Partners for Fair, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, page 103:
      He had sat up half the night, his big eyes rolling in the gloom, and whispered to his audience glamorful tidings of the queer creatures he had seen.
    • 1916 October 13, Betty, “A Debutante’s Letter”, in The Los Angeles Times, published 15 October 1916, part III, page 5, column 1:
      We can warm up perceptibly and purchase reward-bearing lottery tickets on behalf of Belgium with considerable enthusiasm, but for La Belle France, glamorful, cultured, artistic, emotional, piquant France, there is no limit to our devotion.
    • 1966, Edward Hunter, “Down to Bedrock”, in Attack by Mail, Linden, N.J.: The Bookmailer, →LCCN, page 224:
      The false objectivity taught in our schools, and the belittling of American institutions generally by our self-designated intelligentsia, have softened up the American-born in the ethnic communities, and enhanced the treasonable impact of the processed propaganda that presents a glamorful portrait of life in enslaved communist countries.