glammery

Noun

glammery (usually uncountable, plural glammeries)

1. (usually) A magical illusion; glamour.
   • 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...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