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glamourama en · ADJ

Etymology

From glamour + -rama.

Meanings

  1. Extremely glamorous, especially in a tacky way.
    • Cory couldn't help but wonder what Ms. Calloway's story was, why someone so glamourama was riding herd over a posse of captive graffiti artists. 2012, Susan Andersen, Bending The Rules, →ISBN:
    • And the gold really shows the texture of the blocks; by night, they get very glamourama. 2007, Paige Rense, Architectural digest private views, page 119:

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glamourama en · NOUN

Etymology

From glamour + -rama.

Meanings

  1. (no-plural) A condition or state of flashiness or showiness; the type of glamour associated with celebrities.
    • Its sense of national identity on display as a cultural construct is much stronger and more assertive in that it was a production decision to showcase 'national' if somewhat kitschy culture through ethnic folk costumes and visual glamourama. 2012, Dr Joost de Bruin, Dr Koos Zwaan, Adapting Idols, →ISBN:
    • The only things piercing the glow of dusk enveloping Avalon Advertising are the searchlights crisscrossing into the air, which adds a Hollywood-like glamourama to the event. 2006, Kimberly Llewellyn, Tulle Little, Tulle Late, →ISBN, page 297:
    • In gold-thread lurex ankle-tied harem pants glamourama, their picture seen in every second shop this side of Tropicana, it's the slinky television hoofers at TV2 hoofing and walking tall. 1986, David Eggleton, South Pacific Sunrise, page 22:
  2. (no-plural) An event or setting noted for its glamour or celebrity status
    • Snoozefest? I hear whispers that this year's Moogfest didn't quite capture the eclectic energy of 2004's glamourama 2005, Keyboard - Volume 31, Issues 7-12, page 15:
    • Rumors of Princess Diana's said-to-be-imminent decampment for Manhattan — beyond her scheduled glamourama visit this week — are driving New York's celebrity-mad, boldface residents into a frenzy. 1995 February 6, “Contents”, in New York Magazine, volume 28, number 6, page 7:
    • The cartoon is set in the lovey-dovey glamourama of an imaginary Elizabethan theatre company modelled on Shakespeare's men, where even William Shakespeare is a bisexual poetaster writing lovesick verse for the Earl of Southampton. 2001, Shakespeare Jahrbuch - Volume 137, page 76: