allure
English
Etymology
From Old French aleurer, alurer, from a (“to, towards”) (Latin ad) + leurre (“lure”). Compare lure.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /əˈl(j)ʊɚ/
- 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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Verb
allure (third-person singular simple present allures, present participle alluring, simple past and past participle allured)
- (transitive) To entice; to attract.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto XII, 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.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- Injustice doth allure them; as the honour of their vertuous actions enticeth the good.
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Translations
to attempt to draw
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Related terms
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɑˈlyː.rə/
- Hyphenation: al‧lu‧re
- Rhymes: -yːrə
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.lyʁ/
audio (file) - Rhymes: -yʁ
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 le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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