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GLAMOUR

Volume 9 · 67 words · 1810 Edition

or GLAMER, an old term of popular superstition in Scotland, denoting a kind of magical mist believed to be raised by sorcerers, and which deluded their spectators with visions of things which had no real existence, altered the appearance of those which really did exist, &c.—The eastern nations have a similar superstition, as we may learn from the Arabian Nights Entertainments and other works of oriental fiction.