English

Noun

allurings

1. plural of alluring
   • 1615, George Wither, Fidelia

     Was this poor breast, from Love's allurings free, / Cruel to all, and gentle unto thee ?

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

     For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants; so Ahab did, in the end, a little respond to the playful allurings of that girlish air.

   • 1952, Daughters of the American Revolution magazine (volume 86, page 250)

     Lookout heights and Smoky Mountains have allurings all their own.