glamorama

plural glamoramas

1. countableA glamorous location or event.

   Reinvented as one part art deco Parisian suppoer club, one part all-American diner, the Fifth Floor was dressed up as a glamorama: zebra-print carpeting, crimson curtains, and chairs backed by carved nudes.

   2001, Bon Appétit - Volume 46, page 179

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   It is a fact that subjects such as disease prevention, alternatives to animal testing and the good versus bad science arguments are not as " sexy " as the medical “ glamoramas” of things such as transplant surgery.

   1991, The AV Magazine - Volume 99, page 9

   Before he got married he was always being photographed with pouty Siberian models with deep collarbones who attached themselves to him at literary glamoramas like this big-deal celebrity writer spelling bee, which he hosted, and last year's Latin Wheel of Fortune fund-raiser for AIDS research, which he won.

   2002, Adam Davies, The Frog King

   The allure of a glamorama re-creation has been part of this oil-rich city's social scene since at least the '60s, when Joanne King Herring, a reigning grande dame, turned her mansion into a sultan's palace […]

   2005, Elle - Issues 235-236, page 160

2. uncountableGlamorousness.

   Without Angelyne, the glamorama on your Instagram feed and the glitz on Bravo's and E!'s schedules certainly wouldn't be the same.

   2015 August 6, Gary Baum, “L.A. Billboard Diva Angelyne Bemoans Kardashian, Hilton and "Boring, Gauche" Celeb Culture”, in Hollywood Reporter

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   What better way to take in the glamorama of our West and Southwest than through the big, wide-angle picture windows of an S.E streamliner.

   1958, Inside Track - Issues 123-203, page 10

   San Francisco, viewd from Top o' the Mark one September night at 7:10, was at its spectacular best — so overwhelmingly beautiful that a hush fell over the crowded room and people crowded silently against the windows to drink in the glamorama.

   1962, Lawrence Henry Mouat, Reading literature aloud, page 67

   While keeping the glamorama of fragrances such as “Angel” (from 1992) and later “Alien” with Groupe Clarins (from 2009, with a men's version in 2018), he changed his body shape completely, making it difficult to connect him to photographs of him as a young designer who was a former ballet dancer.

   2019 June 7, Suzy Menkes, “Canada's museum magician Thierry-Maxime Loriot is lauded in his homeland”, in Vogue Australia

comparative more glamorama · superlative most glamorama

1. Very glamorous; showy and fashionable.

   This is why a rugged, outdoorsy, lumberjack guy can find, and gain, interest from a glamorama, dolled up, girlie girl.

   2015, Tiffany Johnson, Find Your Happily Ever After

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   And in order to move up professionally, you become a gypsy, moving from city to city and leaving boyfriends behind. lf you want a glamorama job, try news anchor.

   2000, Mademoiselle: The Magazine for the Smart Young Woman

   It didn't hurt that Miami has warm winters, or that the international set had already zeroed in on such glamorama watering holes as the Delano and the Raleigh —

   2006, Travel & Leisure - Volume 36, page 100

   Inspired by a trip to a local grocery store with a "glamorama" produce display, Grooms set out to create a three-dimensional portrait of the Surrealist artist Salvador Dali emerging from a bed of geens under a plexiglas dome.

   2006, Dennis Michael Jon, Vermillion Editions Limited: A History and Catalogue, 1977-1992