Грамматический гламур
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Русское слово гламур происходит от английского glamour, которое является искажённым в шотландском диалекте словом grammar. Вышедшее из употребления слово было возвращено в оборот Вальтером Скоттом. Первоначальное значение «колдовство, волшебство, чары; чарующая сила». Затем приобрело значение «шарм, обаяние; очарование; привлекательность».
Oxford English Dictionary:
glamour, n. Also glamer, glamor, glammar, Sc. glaumour.
[Originally Sc., introduced into the literary language by Scott. A corrupt form of grammar; for the sense cf. gramarye (and F. grimoire), and for the form glomery.]
1. Magic, enchantment, spell; esp. in the phrase to cast the glamour over one (see quot. 1721).
1721 ---- Gloss. to Poems s.v., When devils, wizards or jugglers deceive the sight, they are said to cast glamour o'er the eyes of the spectator.
2. a. A magical or fictitious beauty attaching to any person or object; a delusive or alluring charm.
1863 Ouida Held in Bondage 97, I know how quickly the glamour fades in the test of constant intercourse.
b. Charm; attractiveness; physical allure, esp. feminine beauty; freq. attrib. (see sense 3). colloq. (orig. U.S.).
1947 Partridge Usage & Abusage 353/1 A girl or a gigolo may possess glamour: and it makes no matter whether the girl is glamorous in her own right or by the catch-guinea arts of her dressmaker or her cinematographic producer.
3. attrib. and Comb., as glamour gift, might; glamour-learned ppl. a.;
glamour boy, a young man who possesses glamour; spec. (slang) a member of the R.A.F.;
glamour girl, a glamorous young woman; a ‘pin-up girl';
glamour puss slang, a glamorous person.
Русское слово гламур происходит от английского glamour, которое является искажённым в шотландском диалекте словом grammar. Вышедшее из употребления слово было возвращено в оборот Вальтером Скоттом. Первоначальное значение «колдовство, волшебство, чары; чарующая сила». Затем приобрело значение «шарм, обаяние; очарование; привлекательность».
Oxford English Dictionary:
glamour, n. Also glamer, glamor, glammar, Sc. glaumour.
[Originally Sc., introduced into the literary language by Scott. A corrupt form of grammar; for the sense cf. gramarye (and F. grimoire), and for the form glomery.]
1. Magic, enchantment, spell; esp. in the phrase to cast the glamour over one (see quot. 1721).
1721 ---- Gloss. to Poems s.v., When devils, wizards or jugglers deceive the sight, they are said to cast glamour o'er the eyes of the spectator.
2. a. A magical or fictitious beauty attaching to any person or object; a delusive or alluring charm.
1863 Ouida Held in Bondage 97, I know how quickly the glamour fades in the test of constant intercourse.
b. Charm; attractiveness; physical allure, esp. feminine beauty; freq. attrib. (see sense 3). colloq. (orig. U.S.).
1947 Partridge Usage & Abusage 353/1 A girl or a gigolo may possess glamour: and it makes no matter whether the girl is glamorous in her own right or by the catch-guinea arts of her dressmaker or her cinematographic producer.
3. attrib. and Comb., as glamour gift, might; glamour-learned ppl. a.;
glamour boy, a young man who possesses glamour; spec. (slang) a member of the R.A.F.;
glamour girl, a glamorous young woman; a ‘pin-up girl';
glamour puss slang, a glamorous person.