Usually means: Captivating appeal; powerfully attractive charm.
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  1. allure: Merriam-Webster
  2. allure: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. allure: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. allure: Collins English Dictionary
  5. allure: Vocabulary.com
  6. Allure, allure: Wordnik
  7. allure: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. allure: Wiktionary
  9. allure: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. allure: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. allure: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Allure, allure: Dictionary.com
  13. allure (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. allure: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Allure (EP), Allure (album), Allure (band), Allure (group), Allure (magazine), Allure: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Allure: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. allure: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. allure: Rhymezone
  19. allure, allure (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. allure: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. allure: FreeDictionary.org
  22. allure: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. allure: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. allure: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. allure: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Allure (disambiguation), allure: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  2. Allure: Castle Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. allure: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
verb:  (transitive) To entice; to attract.
noun:  (dated) Gait; bearing.
noun:  The walkway along the top of a castle wall, sometimes entirely covered and normally behind a parapet; the wall walk.

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