allure

From Middle English aluren, from Old French aleurer, alurer, from a (“to, towards”) (Latin ad) + leurre (“lure”). Compare lure.

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈlʊɚ/, /əˈlɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈlʊə/, /əˈljʊə/, /əˈlɔː/

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• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /əˈlʉːɹ/
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /əˈluːɹ/
• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)

allure (countable and uncountable, plural allures)

1. The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.

allure (third-person singular simple present allures, present participle alluring, simple past and past participle allured)

1. (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.

• attract, entice, tempt, decoy, seduce

• lure

From Middle English alure, alour, from Old French alure, aleure (“walk, gait”), from aler (“to go”) +‎ -ure.

allure (countable and uncountable, plural allures)

1. (dated) Gait; bearing.
   • Harper's Magazine

     The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men.

2. The walkway along the top of a castle wall, sometimes entirely covered and normally behind a parapet; the wall walk.

• alure

• Laurel, laurel

Borrowed from French allure.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑˈlyː.rə/

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• Hyphenation: al‧lu‧re
• Rhymes: -yːrə

allure f (plural allures)

1. air, pretension

• sterallure

From aller +‎ -ure.

• IPA^(key): /a.lyʁ/

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• Rhymes: -yʁ

allure f (plural allures)

1. appearance, look
2. speed, pace
3. angle of a boat from the wind
4. gait (of a horse)
   • 1894, Crafty, À travers Paris, page 4:

     . . . un des chevaux du cortège a subitement pris une allure désordonnée que les efforts combinés de son cocher et de son camarade de timon ne sont pas parvenu à modérer.

     . . . one of the horses in the procession suddenly took on a disorderly gait that the combined efforts of its driver and its comrade on the beam were unable to moderate.

5. chemin de ronde (raised protected walkway behind a castle battlement)

• à toute allure

• → Dutch: allure
• → German: Allüre

• “allure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• la leur