Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An alley; a walk.
- noun A passage, gangway, or gallery in a building.
- noun A covered passage; a cloister.
- noun In medieval milit. arch., a footway on the summit of a wall or rampart, behind the battlements; also, the passageway within the hoarding or bratticing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A walk or passage; -- applied to passages of various kinds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
walk orpassage .
Etymologies
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Old French alure, aleure, walk, gait, from aler (French aller) to go.
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Examples
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Her black hair was cut short, but somehow she always managed to have her bangs covering one eye to give her an additional bit of alure.
Star Trek: A Rock and a Hard Place Peter David 1990
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Her black hair was cut short, but somehow she always managed to have her bangs covering one eye to give her an additional bit of alure.
Star Trek: A Rock and a Hard Place Peter David 1990
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Her black hair was cut short, but somehow she always managed to have her bangs covering one eye to give her an additional bit of alure.
Star Trek: A Rock and a Hard Place Peter David 1990
fbharjo commented on the word alure
a walk or passageway
July 5, 2009