The phrase "as an allure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that serves as an attraction or enticement in a particular context.
Example: "The beautiful landscape served as an allure for tourists seeking adventure in the mountains."
Alternatives: "as a temptation" or "as an attraction".
The New Jersey Performing Arts Center has enlivened the city in the evening and acts as an allure for suburbanites.
Since 1933, the Britt Chamber of Commerce has sponsored what became an almost annual event as an allure to tourists.
Why, in some circumstances, does evidence of mendacity, crudeness, or cruelty serve not as a fatal disadvantage but as an allure, attracting ardent followers?
We're clearly supposed to equate them with the exotic parrots that have recently found their way into the Tennisons' garden, but, despite their haute-couture-clad exteriors, the Fullardis have about as much allure as a couple of washed-out old T-shirts.
Warhol advised that enigmatic blankness generates an allure that could serve as the basis of fame.
The imagery of her music may be as much the allure as the politics, whether in her native country or for those outside who are fascinated by it.
EXTREMES Dense, immense, intense -- there is no other place with as much upfront allure.
James's piece has less lyrical specificity but nearly as much sonic allure.
Coleridge's struggle was partly relieved by celebrity: not as a poet, but as a public speaker of passionate allure.
Based on Theodore Dreiser's novel "An American Tragedy," it starred Ms. Taylor as an heiress whose allure is so potent it drives a young striver (Ms. Taylor's close friend, Montgomery Clift) to murder his pregnant working-class lover (Shelley Winters).
And Alden's production has a chilly erotic beauty that disturbs as well as allures.
