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glam en · ADJ

Clipping of glamour.

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Clipping of glamour.

(uncountable) Glamour; glamorousness.
- Who wouldn’t be a glamor girl, a certain-to-enamor girl? What joie de vivre in her life is given her to cram, The dinkum sex-appealing girl, the subtle-charm-revealing girl, ’Mong men the havoc-dealing girl—in short, the girl with glam.! 1939 July 19, The Bulletin, Sydney, page 14, column 1:
(abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of glam rock, the fashion and culture associated with this genre.
alt of glam rock
- Blokes sporting make-up and vertiginous platform boots, songs that were precision-tooled melodramas of bubblegum pop and football-terrace stomp, a belief in pop itself as a liberating space for fantasy and shape-shifting: it’s perhaps unsurprising that glam, in whose rise Bowie played a huge part, has never been taken very seriously. 2016 October 7, Sukhdev Sandhu, “Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy by Simon Reynolds”, in The Guardian:
(countable, qualifier:FFXIV fandom slang) A glamour; a cosmetic alteration applied to a piece of equipment.
- So when you put a glam on an item it's on that item. 2023 July 30, Karaethon22, Reddit:
- The three types of FFXIV glams: Skimpy, normal clothes, and joke outfits. 2022 July 15, rhydderch_hael, Reddit:
- The game will not let you apply the appearance of a piece of gear when that piece of gear already has a glam on it. 2025 July 22, poplarleaves, Reddit:

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Clipping of glamour.

To make glamorous or more glamorous.
(qualifier:FFXIV fandom slang) To apply a glamour to a piece of equipment.
- your sarcasm is amazing considering I glammed my shire bow with a lvl 1 bow to give my character an amateur hunter look. 2018 July 26, BlerdOtaku, Reddit:
- But another part i thought was exciting was just glamming every piece of gear i could find, so i could try literally any outfit. 2023 November 9, Donplonex, Reddit:
- Yes, glam is applied to whatever gear you currently wear so everytime you change a piece of your gear you'll need to glam it again. 2026 May 24, hi_im_maverick, Reddit:

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