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countable and uncountable, plural allures
The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction. examples
third-person singular simple present allures, present participle alluring, simple past and past participle allured
(transitive) To entice; to attract. quotations examples
[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, 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 […]
A tender voice his wondring ear allur'd.
1737, R[ichard] Glover, “Book VI”, in Leonidas. A Poem., page 152
(dated) Gait; bearing. quotations examples
The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men.
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The walkway along the top of a castle wall, sometimes entirely covered and normally behind a parapet; the wall walk. examples