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allureal‧lure /əˈljʊə $ əˈlʊr/ noun [singular, uncountable]   allureOrigin: 1500-1600 allure ‘to attract’ (15-21 centuries), from Old French alurer, from luere; ➔ LURE2 - Fatty snacks can soon lose their allure if you have nothing else to eat.
- A challenging language, carrying with it the sweet allure of forbidden fruit.
- It held no allure for me.
- Passing the test allows a character to sense that there is some magical allure or drawing-in effect here which is dangerous.
- She was twenty-eight years of age with the kind of breathtaking allure normally associated with the cover of a glossy fashion magazine.
- The allure of pipes, of a lute, of a lyre, a flute.
- They do not possess the seductive allure of other parts of the female anatomy.
someone who is sexually attractive► sexy sexually attractive to people, either because of your body, your good looks, or attractive personality: · Peter is strong, good looking, and very sexy.· The advertisement showed a sexy young woman in a short skirt standing beside a sports car.· Her flushed cheeks, wide eyes, and slightly opened mouth made her look sexy. ► attractive someone who is attractive has a personality or appearance that makes other people sexually attracted to them: · It's enough for me that my husband thinks I'm sexually attractive.attractive to: · I don't know what makes Jamie so attractive to women.find somebody attractive (=think they are attractive): · She's very nice but I don't really find her attractive. ► sex appeal someone's appearance, behaviour, or personality that makes them sexually attractive: · Tanya uses her sex appeal to get whatever she wants.have sex appeal: · Barry's a really nice guy, but he has absolutely no sex appeal. ► desirable formal someone who is desirable makes you feel sexually attracted to them: · Ray was still in good shape and far more desirable than most men his age. ► voluptuous a woman who is voluptuous has large breasts and an attractive, rounded body, so that men feel sexually attracted to her: · Everyone turned to look at Gordon and his voluptuous mistress as they entered the room. ► alluring written a woman who is alluring attracts men in a sexual way, because she seems to be exciting and a little mysterious: · Helene was an alluring beauty whom few men could resist.· She was encouraged to use her feminine charms, to be coy and alluring. a mysterious, exciting, or desirable qualityallure of the allure of foreign travel At 50, she had lost none of her sexual allure.—allure verb [transitive]: harmonies that never fail to allure the listener—alluring adjective: the alluring magic of Hong Kong—allurement noun [countable, uncountable] |