glamorama

glamorama (countable and uncountable, plural glamoramas)

1. (countable) A glamorous location or event.
   • 1991, The AV Magazine - Volume 99, page 9:

     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.

   • 2001, Bon Appétit - Volume 46, page 179:

     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.

   • 2002, Adam Davies, The Frog King:

     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.

   • 2005, Elle - Issues 235-236, page 160:

     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 […]

2. (uncountable) Glamorousness.
   • 1958, Inside Track - Issues 123-203, page 10:

     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.

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

     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.

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

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

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

     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.

glamorama (comparative more glamorama, superlative most glamorama)

1. Very glamorous; showy and fashionable.
   • 2000, Mademoiselle: The Magazine for the Smart Young Woman:

     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.

   • 2006, Travel & Leisure - Volume 36, page 100:

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

     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.

   • 2015, Tiffany Johnson, Find Your Happily Ever After:

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