allure
English
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Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French aleurer, alurer, from a (“to, towards”) (Latin ad) + leurre (“lure”). Compare lure.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Noun
allure (countable and uncountable, plural allures)
- The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
- (dated) gait; bearing
- Harper's Magazine
- The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men.
- Harper's Magazine
Translations
the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction
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gait; bearing
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Verb
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- (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 were faire Ladies, till they fondly ſtriu’d / With th’Heliconian maides for mayſtery; / Of whom they ouer-comen, were depriu’d / Of their proud beautie, and th’one moyity / Transform’d to fiſh, for their bold ſurquedry, / But th’vpper halfe their hew retayned ſtill, / And their ſweet skill in wonted melody; / Which euer after they abuſd to ill, / T’allure weake trueillers, whom gotten they did kill.
- Template:RQ:Florio Montaigne Essayes
Synonyms
Translations
to attempt to draw
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Dutch
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Noun
allure f (plural allures)
Derived terms
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
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)
Further reading
- “allure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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