allure
See also: alluré and Allüre
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English aluren, from Old French aleurer, alurer, from a (“to, towards”) (Latin ad) + leurre (“lure”). Compare lure.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /əˈl(j)(ʊ)ɚ/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Noun
allure (countable and uncountable, plural allures)
- The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
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, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, 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, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] 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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Synonyms
- attract, entice, tempt, decoy, seduce
Translations
to attempt to draw
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Related terms
- lure
Etymology 2
From Middle English alure, alour, from Old French alure, aleure (“walk, gait”), from aler (“to go”) + -ure.
Noun
allure (countable and uncountable, plural allures)
- (dated) Gait; bearing.
- Harper's Magazine
- The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men.
- Harper's Magazine
- The walkway along the top of a castle wall, sometimes entirely covered and normally behind a parapet; the wall walk.
Alternative forms
- alure
Translations
gait; bearing
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Anagrams
- Laurel, laurel
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French allure.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɑˈlyː.rə/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: al‧lu‧re
- Rhymes: -yːrə
Noun
allure f (plural allures)
- air, pretension
Derived terms
- sterallure
French
Etymology
aller + -ure.
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)
Derived terms
- à toute allure
Descendants
- → Dutch: allure
- → German: Allüre
Further reading
- “allure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- la leur