Lacking glamour, charm, or attractiveness; plain and unexciting.
From glamour (Scottish variant of grammar, later meaning enchantment or magic) + -less (suffix meaning without). Developed in the 20th century as fashion and celebrity culture became prominent.
The word 'glamourless' is relatively modern because glamour itself didn't mean what we think until the 1900s—before that it literally meant magical spells! We needed this word because consumer culture created an entire vocabulary around desirability.
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