The Only Use of
allure
in
1984, by Orwell
- He seemed to breathe again the warm stuffy odor of the basement kitchen, an odor compounded of bugs and dirty clothes and villainous cheap scent, but nevertheless alluring, because no woman of the Party ever used scent, or could be imagined as doing so.†
p. 64.8alluring = attracting or tempting
Definition:
to tempt or attract