Luring

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    allurement

    "Perhaps the most striking instance of this desired appropriation of color, particularly the color that Pope associated with nature and, through nature, with the muse and all her feminine lurings, can be found in Windsor-Forest […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of lure form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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attractive

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"Fires for luring fish at night flicker on the silhouette of an island."

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