allure

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From Middle English aluren, from Old French aleurer, alurer, from a (“to, towards”) (Latin ad) + leurre (“lure”). By surface analysis, al- + lure.

countable, uncountable The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.

transitive To entice; to attract. [They retained] their ſweet skill in wonted melody; / Which euer after they abuſd to ill, / T’allure weake trueillers, whom gotten they did kill.

From Middle English alure, alour, from Old French alure, aleure (“walk, gait”), from aler (“to go”) + -ure.

countable, dated, uncountable Gait; bearing. Harper's Magazine The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men.
countable, uncountable The walkway along the top of a castle wall, sometimes entirely covered and normally behind a parapet; the wall walk.