Definitions
provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion
Word origin
From Anglo-Norman lure, from Old French loirre (Modern French leurre), from Frankish *lōþr, from Proto-Germanic *lōþr-, perhaps ultimately related to *laþō (“invitation, calling”), or from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to hide”). Compare English allure, also from Old French. Probably related to German Luder (“bait”).
Used in a sentence
“How many have with a smile made small account Of Beauty and her lures”
“My Faulcon now is ſharpe and paſſing emptie, / And til ſhe ſtoope ſhe muſt not be full gorg'd, / For then ſhe never lookes upon her lure.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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