allure/əˈlʊɚ/EtymologyFrom Middle English aluren, from Old French aleurer, alurer, from a (“to, towards”) (Latin ad) + leurre (“lure”). By surface analysis, al- + lure.allure means the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 68 out of 100.allure is pronounced /əˈlʊɚ/.nounThe power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.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.verbTo 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.”