Glamour vs Pageantry - What's the difference?
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(countable) an item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance
Witchcraft; magic charm; a spell affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are.
A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, or person, through which it or they appear delusively magnified or glorified.
(uncountable) Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal)
A pageant; a colourful show or display, as in a pageant.
*1609 : William Shakespeare, Pericles (V, ii)
*:That you aptly will suppose / What pageantry , what feats, what shows, / What minstrelsy, and pretty din, / The regent made in Mytilene / To greet the king.
*1849 : Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
*:The world seemed decked for some holiday or prouder pageantry , with silken streamers flying, ...
Glamour is a related term of pageantry.
As nouns the difference between glamour and pageantry
is that glamour is (countable) an item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance while pageantry is a pageant; a colourful show or display, as in a pageant.As a verb glamour
is to enchant; to bewitch.glamour
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Alternative forms
* glamor (US) (Commonwealth-spelling widely accepted across the states.)Noun
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