Panache vs Glamour - What's the difference?
panache | glamour |
(countable) An ornamental plume on a helmet.
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(uncountable) Flamboyant, energetic style or action; dash; verve.
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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)
As verbs the difference between panache and glamour
is that panache is while glamour is to enchant; to bewitch.As nouns the difference between panache and glamour
is that panache is shandy (mix of beer and lemonade) while glamour is (countable) an item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance.As an adjective panache
is mixed, variegated.panache
English
(wikipedia panache)Noun
- I had taken the panache from my shako so that it might escape notice, but even with my fine overcoat I feared that sooner or later my uniform would betray me.
- One old gentleman, who was in the habit of reading a Paris newspaper and knew things, chuckled gleefully to everybody that Alcée’s conduct was altogether chic, mais chic. That he had more panache than Boulanger. Well, perhaps he had.
Synonyms
* (ornament on a helmet) hackle, plume, plumage * (flamboyant style) dash, flamboyance, swagger, verveglamour
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Alternative forms
* glamor (US) (Commonwealth-spelling widely accepted across the states.)Noun
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