Noun

(en noun)

Attractiveness; appeal, charisma.

*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

, chapter=1 citation , passage=He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement .}}

An enticement, inducement or bait.

*1723 , Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury :

*:That though their Thoughts'' are ever turn'd upon appearing ''Aimiable'', yet every ''Feature'' of their ''Faces'' and every ''Part'' of their ''Dress'' is fill'd with ''Snares'' and ''Allurements .

Noun

(en-noun)

The tendency to attract.

The feeling of being attracted.

* , chapter=5

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction . A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}

An event or location that has a tendency to attract visitors.

(chess) The sacrifice of pieces in order to expose the enemy king.