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单词 alure
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aluren.

Brit. /əˈl(j)ʊə/, /əˈl(j)ɔː/, U.S. /əˈlʊr/
Forms: Middle English aler, Middle English alour, Middle English 1700s– alure, Middle English 1900s– allure; Scottish pre-1700 alar, 1700s allar.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French alure.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman alure, alour, allur walkway (behind a parapet) (early 12th cent.), passage, gallery (second half of the 12th cent.), (rare) parapet (c1320 in the passage paraphrased in quot. 1853 at sense 3), apparently a specific use of Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French alure speed of travel (late 12th cent. as aleure ), gait (c1170; French allure : see allure n.2). Compare ( < French) post-classical Latin alura rampart walk, covered passageway, gallery (frequently from 12th cent. in British sources).
Now chiefly historical.
1.
a. A gallery, balcony, or other (often covered) walkway; spec. (a) one behind the parapets of a castle, tower, etc.; a parapet walk; (b) a covered passageway, a cloister. Also occasionally: †an aisle (obsolete).
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > gallery round roof
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [noun] > ambulatory > portico or arcade
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society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > aisle or passage > [noun]
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c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 3969 (MED) Vpe þe alures of þe castles þe leuedyes þanne stode.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 3 Kings vii. 2 Foure aluris [a1425 L.V. aleis; L. deambulacra] betwen þe cedre pileres.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 687 Fresche alures with lusty hiȝe pynacles..Þat called werne deambulatories.
1457 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 100 (MED) Mem. that there ys payede to Crosse for the makyng and peyntyng of the Aler of the Chorche. £ xxxj ijs. xjd.
1756 W. Maitland Hist. London (new ed.) I. i. xvi. 147/2 To make upon the said Tower, on the South Side above, deep Alures, of good and strong Timber.
1876 Sessional Papers Royal Inst. Brit. Architects 109 At Valle Crucis there is a passage from the muniment chamber over the sacristy, with an alure over the arches in front of the transept chapel.
1878 R. B. MacVittie Details Restoration Christ Church Cathedral Dublin 63 Round north and south transepts and on to the alure of choir.
1919 Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. 53 38 The exterior fortifications are..commanded from the top of the mound; even its base in the ditch must have been visible from the allure on the curtain.
1958 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 62 228/1 The alure above these chambers, which was five to six metres above ground level, was at least partially covered by a series of small corbel-vaults.
2008 N. Davies & E. Jokiniemi Dict. Archit. & Building Constr. 11/2 Alatorium, a walk-way behind the battlements of a Roman fortification..; an alure or parapet walk.
b. A garden path. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun] > walk
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [noun] > foot(-)path > in a garden or pleasure-ground
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a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Arun.) (1911) l. 2313 (MED) In this gardyn..In the Allures walking to and fro.
c1535 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (Davidson) l. 17 in Shorter Poems (1967) 3 [The] siluer droppis on dayseis distillant. [Quh]ilk verdour branches ouer the alars ȝet.
1705 in A. W. C. Hallen Acct. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (1894) 389 For 4 days mawing the intack, allars, or avenew and walk in the park.
2. Probably: the railing of a window. Obsolete. rare.
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a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) 4 Kings i. 2 Ocozie felde thorou the aleris [a1382 E.V. wyndowes] of his soler [L. per cancellos cœnaculi sui].
3. A parapet. Cf. aluring n. 1. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > wall > other types of wall
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blank wall1904
1853 J. H. Parker Some Acct. Domest. Archit. II. i. 7 And alures of stone were to be raised above the roof timbers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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