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Allure
//əˈlʊɚ// noun, verb
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction. countable, uncountable
- 2 Gait; bearing. countable, dated, uncountable
"Harper's Magazine The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men."
- 3 the power to entice or attract through personal charm wordnet
- 4 The walkway along the top of a castle wall, sometimes entirely covered and normally behind a parapet; the wall walk. countable, uncountable
Verb
- 1 To entice; to attract. transitive
"[They retained] their ſweet skill in wonted melody; / Which euer after they abuſd to ill, / T’allure weake trueillers, whom gotten they did kill."
- 2 dispose or incline or entice to wordnet
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English aluren, from Old French aleurer, alurer, from a (“to, towards”) (Latin ad) + leurre (“lure”). Compare lure.
Etymology 2
From Middle English aluren, from Old French aleurer, alurer, from a (“to, towards”) (Latin ad) + leurre (“lure”). Compare lure.
Etymology 3
From Middle English alure, alour, from Old French alure, aleure (“walk, gait”), from aler (“to go”) + -ure.
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