From Middle English aluren, from Old French aleurer, alurer, from a (“to, towards”) (Latin ad) + leurre (“lure”). By surface analysis, al- + lure.
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(countable, uncountable) The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
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ru привлека́тельность (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · pl powab (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · es fascinación (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · ca encís (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · uk прива́бливість (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · de Reiz (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · ja 魅力 (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · it fascino (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · ru очарова́ние (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · es aliciente (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · no drag (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · de Anziehungskraft (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · fi vetovoima (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · fi viehätys (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · ca atractiu (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · it attrazione (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · fa جذبه (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · pt encanto (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · it richiamo (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · ru обая́ние (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · cmn 誘惑 /诱惑 (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · es encanto (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · pt atrativo (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · pl czar (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · es atractivo (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · uk шарм (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · it incanto (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · de Verlockung (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · ru шарм (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · gl encanto (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · nl aantrekkelijkheid (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · ru ча́ры (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · it ammaliamento (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · tr cezbetmek (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · bg привлека́телност (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction) · fr attirance (the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction)
From Middle English aluren, from Old French aleurer, alurer, from a (“to, towards”) (Latin ad) + leurre (“lure”). By surface analysis, al- + lure.
Meanings
(transitive) To entice; to attract.
A tender voice his wondring ear allur'd. 1737, R[ichard] Glover, “Book VI”, in Leonidas. A Poem., page 152:
[They retained] their ſweet skill in wonted melody; / Which euer after they abuſd to ill, / T’allure weake trueillers, whom gotten they did kill. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 31, pages 370–371:
Injustice doth allure them; as the honour of their vertuous actions enticeth the good. 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
pl wabić (to attempt to draw) · ru зама́нивать (to attempt to draw) · it intrigare (to attempt to draw) · ru соблазни́ть (to attempt to draw) · pt atrair (to attempt to draw) · it incantare (to attempt to draw) · bg съблазнявам (to attempt to draw) · ru плени́ть (to attempt to draw) · pl przyciągać (to attempt to draw) · it affascinare (to attempt to draw) · pl nęcić (to attempt to draw) · sv locka (to attempt to draw) · bg изкушавам (to attempt to draw) · da lokke (to attempt to draw) · ca abellir (to attempt to draw) · it ammaliare (to attempt to draw) · fi houkuttaa (to attempt to draw) · fi viehättää (to attempt to draw) · ca seduir (to attempt to draw) · ru прельща́ть (to attempt to draw) · bg привличам (to attempt to draw) · nl verleiden (to attempt to draw) · it attrarre (to attempt to draw) · es atraer (to attempt to draw) · ru соблазня́ть (to attempt to draw) · ru пленя́ть (to attempt to draw) · ru завле́чь (to attempt to draw) · ru завлека́ть (to attempt to draw) · ca temptar (to attempt to draw) · ru замани́ть (to attempt to draw) · es cautivar (to attempt to draw) · de verlocken (to attempt to draw) · cmn 引誘 /引诱 (to attempt to draw) · it sedurre (to attempt to draw) · la pelliciō (to attempt to draw) · ja 魅惑する (to attempt to draw) · de locken (to attempt to draw) · la allectō (to attempt to draw) · fi houkutella (to attempt to draw) · ca atraure (to attempt to draw) · ru прельсти́ть (to attempt to draw)
allure en · NOUN · etymology 2
Etymology
From Middle English alure, alour, from Old French alure, aleure (“walk, gait”), from aler (“to go”) + -ure.
Meanings
(countable, dated, uncountable) Gait; bearing.
Harper's Magazine
The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men.
(countable, uncountable) The walkway along the top of a castle wall, sometimes entirely covered and normally behind a parapet; the wall walk.