allure
Valid in Scrabble
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- 6
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- 9
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Definition of allure
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable, uncountable)The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
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noun
- (countable, uncountable)The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
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(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.
verb
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(transitive)To entice; to attract.
“[They retained] their ſweet skill in wonted melody; / Which euer after they abuſd to ill, / T’allure weake trueillers, whom gotten they did kill.”
“Injustice doth allure them; as the honour of their vertuous actions enticeth the good.”
“A tender voice his wondring ear allur'd.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
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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