# allure
## 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: /əˈlʊɚ/, /əˈlɚ/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˈlʊə/, /əˈljʊə/, /əˈlɔː/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA: /əˈlʉːɹ/
* (Ireland) IPA: /əˈluːɹ/
* Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)

#### Noun

allure (countable and uncountable, plural allures)
* The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.

##### Translations
#### 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, 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.‎, page 152:A tender voice his wondring ear allur'd.

##### Synonyms

* attract, entice, tempt, decoy, seduce

##### Translations
#### Derived terms

* allurance
* allurement
* allurer
* unallured

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

##### Alternative forms

* alure

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* Laurel, laurel

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French allure.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌɑˈlyː.rə/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: al‧lu‧re
* Rhymes: -yːrə

### Noun

allure f (plural allures)
* air, pretension

#### Derived terms

* sterallure

## French
### Etymology

From aller +‎ -ure.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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)
** 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.
* 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