beglamour

Verb

beglamour (third-person singular simple present beglamours, present participle beglamouring, simple past and past participle beglamoured)

1. To make glamorous.
   • In her former blindness she had known him as shiftless Johnny Taylor, tall and lean. That was before the golden dust of pollen had beglamored his rags and her eyes.1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 2, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, University of Illinois Press, published 1978, page 25
   • Lights glitter on wet planks, on the functional bodies of the day's catch, and floodlights beglamour the colored dresses and the pastel beach costumes of the crowds that stroll there.1954, Philip Wylie, The Best of Crunch and Des, page 4
2. To bedazzle; to deceive as if by magic.
   • “Do,” cried Robin; “sir, she’s an auld withered hag, would spean a foal. Surely she did na sae beglamour your senses as to appear like a winsome young lass?”1823, John Galt, chapter 49, in Ringan Gilhaize
   • It is not necessary to follow the wild goose chase which the Rev. George’s imagination ran from this starting-point to the moment when he was suddenly awakened, by an unmistakable symptom, to the fact that he was being outwitted and beglamoured, like the utter novice he was, by a power which he...1905, George Bernard Shaw, The Irrational Knot, London: Archibald Constable & Co, Book Two, Chapter 11, p. 227