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English

Alternative forms

• allure

Etymology

From Middle English alure, alour, from Old French alure, aleure (“walk, gait”), from aler (“to go”) +‎ -ure (modern French aller).

Noun

alure (plural alures)

1. (obsolete) A walk or passage.
   • 1774-1781, Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry:

     The sides of every street were covered with fresh alures of marble.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “alure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• LaRue, Larue, Lauer, Luera, ureal