glammery

plural glammeries · alternative glamoury

1. uncountableusuallyA magical illusion; glamour.

   So the flaming giant by magic art was held fast in chains of glammery by the invincible word, and stood in awe of a man armed with a spear of the mind, while the avenging sword shackled him in fetters not made of steel.

   2015 July 20, Nonnus Nonnos of Panopolis, Delphi Complete Dionysiaca of Nonnus (Illustrated), illustrated edition, volume 50, Delphi Classics

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   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.

   1848, William Hamilton Maxwell, Brian O'Linn; Or, Luck is Everything, Volume 2, volume 2, page 170

   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.’

   2006 October 31, Diarmaid Ó Muirithe, Words We Use: The Meaning of Words And Where They Come From, Gill & Macmillan Ltd, →ISBN