lured

verbattract, seduce

Word Origin & History

early 14c., "something which allures or entices, an attraction" (a figurative use), also "bait for recalling hawks," from Anglo-French lure, Old French loirre "device used to recall hawks, lure," from Frankish *loþr or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *lothran "to call" (cf. Middle High German luoder, Middle Low German loder "lure, bait," German Luder "lure, deceit, bait;" also Old English laþian "to call, invite," German laden).

Originally a bunch of feathers on a long cord, from which the hawk is fed during its training. Used of means of alluring other animals (especially fish) from c.1700. Technically, bait is something the animal can eat; lure is a more general term. Also in 15c. a collective word for a group of young women.

Example Sentences for lured

But I let myself be lured into long spells of senseless and sensual ease.

Nimrod and I had been lured to the Cuttle Fish ranch to go on a wolf hunt.

It was more than this, however, that lured me back to Labrador.

Step by step I lured you on until you offered to make me your wife.

He, too, it is who has lured you out here, to carry you away altogether.

My attack had lured him, as I desired that it should, into making a riposte.

Was it wonderful that I allowed myself to be lured into this affair?

The intense femininity of her lured him on, invited him, surrendered to him.

To this end no plan could be more propitious than that into which he had lured her.

With hocus-pocus like that no dog is lured from the stove in the real world.

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