alluder

A rare, largely archaic verb meaning "to allude to" — modern French almost always uses the set phrase faire allusion à instead. Alluder on its own now reads as old-fashioned or overly literary.

• Il alluda discrètement à ses ennuis financiers. — He alluded discreetly to his financial troubles.
• Le poète allude à des événements qu'il ne nomme jamais. — The poet alludes to events he never names directly.
• Sans jamais alluder ouvertement au scandale, elle en dit assez. — Without ever openly alluding to the scandal, she said enough.

Don't build sentences around alluder in modern French — faire allusion à is the natural, current way to say the same thing; alluder will sound stilted or archaic to a native speaker today.