Allure vs. Alure: What's the Difference?
"Allure" refers to the quality of being attractive or fascinating, while "alure" is an archaic term that historically referred to a passage or walkway, often in a castle.
Allure and Alure Definitions
Allure
To attract with something desirable; entice
Promises of quick profits allure the unwary investor.
Alure
(obsolete) A walk or passage.
Allure
To be highly, often subtly attractive
Charms that still allure.
Alure
A walk or passage; - applied to passages of various kinds.
The sides of every street were covered with fresh alures of marble.
Allure
The power to attract; enticement.
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Allure
The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
Allure
(dated) Gait; bearing.
Allure
The walkway along the top of a castle wall, sometimes entirely covered and normally behind a parapet; the wall walk.
Allure
(transitive) To entice; to attract.
Allure
To attempt to draw; to tempt by a lure or bait, that is, by the offer of some good, real or apparent; to invite by something flattering or acceptable; to entice; to attract.
With promised joys allured them on.
The golden sun in splendor likest HeavenAllured his eye.
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Allure
Allurement.
Allure
Gait; bearing.
The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men.
Allure
The power to entice or attract through personal charm
Allure
Dispose or incline or entice to;
We were tempted by the delicious-looking food
