Glamour vs Pomp - 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)
Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.
* 1698 . "A person of quality" [Pierre Nicole]. Moral Essayes, Contain'd in Several Treatises on Many Important Duties. Vol I, p95.
* , Episode 12, The Cyclops
A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant.
* Addison
As nouns the difference between glamour and pomp
is that glamour is an item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance while pomp is show of magnificence; parade; display; power.As verbs the difference between glamour and pomp
is that glamour is to enchant; to bewitch while pomp is to make a pompous display; to conduct.glamour
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Alternative forms
* glamor (US) (Commonwealth-spelling widely accepted across the states.)Noun
- glamour''' magazines; a '''glamour model
Derived terms
* glamorous/glamourous * glamorously * glamour model * glamour photography * glammed up * glam rock * glamReferences
* ----pomp
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- "'Tis a gross visible errour, which Tertullian teaches in his Book of Idolatry cap. 18. That all the marks of Dignity and Power, and all the ornaments annexed to Office, are forbid Christians, and that Jesus Christ hath plac'd all these things amongst the pomps of the Devil, since he himself appeared in a condition so far from all pomp and splendour."
- The deafening claps of thunder and the dazzling flashes of lightning which lit up the ghastly scene testified that the artillery of heaven had lent its supernatural pomp to the already gruesome spectacle.
- all the pomps of a Roman triumph
