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
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Old French alure, aleure, walk, gait, from aler (French aller) to go.
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.
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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.
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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.
fbharjo commented on the word alure
a walk or passageway
July 5, 2009