"glammery" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: glammeries [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|glammeries}} glammery (usually uncountable, plural glammeries)
  1. A magical illusion; glamour. Tags: uncountable, usually Synonyms: glamoury
    Sense id: en-glammery-en-noun-wKpSxwK6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1848, William Hamilton Maxwell, Brian O'Linn; Or, Luck is Everything, Volume 2, volume 2, page 170:",
          "text": "By some wondrous acts—faith! there's people in the country will tell you it was what they call ‘glammery’—he got a complete ascendancy over the proud lady, re-moved all the old people in doors and out of doors; and persuaded the dame that Mr. Danvers was nearly doting, had him pensioned him off, and became manager and director of everything.",
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          "ref": "2006 October 31, Diarmaid Ó Muirithe, Words We Use: The Meaning of Words And Where They Come From, Gill & Macmillan Ltd, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Walter Scott may take the credit for introducing the word into standard English, but the word is still used in the north of Ireland as The Ballymena Observer recorded it in 1892: ‘After Hallow Eve the divil throws his glammery over the blackberries.’",
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