allure
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English aluren, from Old French aleurer, alurer, from a (“to, towards”) (Latin ad) + leurre (“lure”). Compare lure.
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allure (countable and uncountable, plural allures)
- The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
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the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction
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Verb[edit]
allure (third-person singular simple present allures, present participle alluring, simple past and past participle allured)
- (transitive) To entice; to attract.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 31, pages 370–371:
- [They retained] their ſweet skill in wonted melody; / Which euer after they abuſd to ill, / T’allure weake trueillers, whom gotten they did kill.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- Injustice doth allure them; as the honour of their vertuous actions enticeth the good.
- 1737, R[ichard] Glover, “Book VI”, in Leonidas. A Poem.[1], page 152:
- A tender voice his wondring ear allur'd.
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to attempt to draw
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Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English alure, alour, from Old French alure, aleure (“walk, gait”), from aler (“to go”) + -ure.
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allure (countable and uncountable, plural allures)
- (dated) Gait; bearing.
- Harper's Magazine
- The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men.
- Harper's Magazine
- The walkway along the top of a castle wall, sometimes entirely covered and normally behind a parapet; the wall walk.
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allure f (plural allures)
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allure f (plural allures)
- appearance, look
- speed, pace
- angle of a boat from the wind
- gait (of a horse)
- chemin de ronde (raised protected walkway behind a castle battlement)
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- “allure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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