alure

Or al·lure

[al-yoor, -yer]

noun

1. a passageway, as the walk along one side of a cloister.

Word History and Origins

Origin of alure¹

1250–1300; Middle English, also al ( o ) ur < Old French aleure passage, equivalent to ale walk ( alley ¹ ) + -ure -ure

Example Sentences

Alure Home Improvement is a small home improvement company and they’re seeing leads tick up a little from being seen via the tool.

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And first themselues the English to secure, Doubting what danger might be yet within; The strongest Forts, and Citadell make sure, To showe that they could keepe as well as win, And though the spoyles them wondrously alure, To fall to pillage e’r they will begin, They shut each passage, by which any power Might be brought on to hinder, but an hower.

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Surchargde with guilt of thousand massacres, Mounser of Loraine sinke away to hell, In just remembrance of those bloudy broyles, To which thou didst alure me being alive: And heere in presence of you all I sweare, I nere was King of France untill this houre: This is the traitor that hath spent my golde, In making forraine warres and cruel broiles.

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