Etymology

glamoury

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Today it means: magic Full definition →

Scots glamourie ← Middle English gramarie ← Old French grammaire
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  1. Old French · derived fromgrammaire
  2. Middle English · derived fromgramarie
  3. Scots · borrowed fromglamourie“magic”
  4. English todayglamoury

Borrowed from Scots glamourie (“magic”), alteration of Middle English gramarie (as glamour is of Middle English gramere), from Old French grammaire, Doublet of glamour, gramarye, grammar, and grimoire.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishgramarie all →

gramarye

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