Allure

//əˈlʊɚ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    Gait; bearing. countable, dated, uncountable

    "Harper's Magazine The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men."

  3. 3
    the power to entice or attract through personal charm wordnet
  4. 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. 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. 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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