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English
Etymology 1
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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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 — see also appeal
- Bulgarian: привлека́телност (bg) f (privlekátelnost)
- Catalan: atractiu (ca) m, encís (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 誘惑 / 诱惑 (zh) (yòuhuò)
- Dutch: aantrekkelijkheid (nl)
- Finnish: viehätys (fi), vetovoima (fi)
- French: attirance (fr) f
- Galician: encanto m
- German: Verlockung (de) f, Reiz (de) m, Anziehungskraft (de) f
- Italian: ammaliamento m, fascino (it) m, incanto (it) m, attrazione (it) f, richiamo (it) m
- Japanese: 魅力 (ja) (みりょく, miryoku)
- Norwegian: drag (no) n
- Persian: جذبه (fa) (jazabe)
- Polish: czar (pl), powab (pl)
- Portuguese: encanto (pt) m, atrativo (pt) m
- Russian: привлека́тельность (ru) f (privlekátelʹnostʹ), шарм (ru) m (šarm), очарова́ние (ru) n (očarovánije), обая́ние (ru) n (obajánije), ча́ры (ru) f pl (čáry)
- Spanish: encanto (es) m, fascinación (es) f, atractivo (es) f, aliciente (es) m
- Turkish: cezbetmek (tr)
- Ukrainian: шарм m (šarm), прива́бливість f (pryváblyvistʹ)
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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, 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.
1737, R[ichard] Glover, “Book VI”, in Leonidas. A Poem.[1], page 152:A tender voice his wondring ear allur'd.
Synonyms
Translations
to attempt to draw
- Bulgarian: привличам (bg) (privličam), изкушавам (bg) (izkušavam), съблазнявам (bg) (săblaznjavam)
- Catalan: atraure (ca), seduir (ca), temptar (ca), abellir (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 引誘 / 引诱 (zh) (yǐnyòu)
- Danish: lokke
- Dutch: verleiden (nl)
- Finnish: viehättää (fi), houkutella (fi), houkuttaa (fi)
- German: locken (de), verlocken (de)
- Italian: attrarre (it), sedurre (it), incantare (it), ammaliare (it), affascinare (it), intrigare (it)
- Japanese: 魅惑する (ja) (みわくする, miwaku suru)
- Latin: allectō, pelliciō
- Polish: wabić (pl), nęcić (pl), przyciągać (pl)
- Portuguese: atrair (pt)
- Russian: завлека́ть (ru) impf (zavlekátʹ), завле́чь (ru) pf (zavléčʹ), зама́нивать (ru) impf (zamánivatʹ), замани́ть (ru) pf (zamanítʹ), прельща́ть (ru) impf (prelʹščátʹ), прельсти́ть (ru) pf (prelʹstítʹ), соблазня́ть (ru) impf (soblaznjátʹ), соблазни́ть (ru) pf (soblaznítʹ), пленя́ть (ru) impf (plenjátʹ), плени́ть (ru) pf (plenítʹ)
- Spanish: atraer (es), cautivar (es)
- Swedish: locka (sv)
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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.
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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French allure.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɑˈlyː.rə/
- Hyphenation: al‧lu‧re
- Rhymes: -yːrə
Noun
allure f (plural allures, no diminutive)
- air, pretension
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French
Etymology
From aller + -ure.
Pronunciation
Noun
allure f (plural allures)
- appearance, look
- speed, pace
- à vive allure ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- 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)
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