Bill:

interestingly, there is only a tenuous connection, if any at all, between the verb allure, meaning to entice, and the noun allure, meaning a place to walk. The latter is from an earlier word alure, an old French word for a gait or a way of walking. There's a connection to the word alley as well as to aisle.

the verb allure comes from the term lure, used in falconry, and when I saw that my mind immediately lept to alure as a high place on which to lure a falcon. Doesn't seem to be the case.

TTF


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