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Temptress   /tˈɛmptrɪs/   Listen
Temptress

noun
1.
A woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive.  Synonyms: Delilah, enchantress, femme fatale, siren.





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"Temptress" Quotes from Famous Books



... Godfrey descended to the coffee-room and ate his dinner. Here it was that the universal temptress against whom he had been warned so urgently, put in a first appearance in the person of a pleasant and elderly lady who was seated alongside of him. Noting this good-looking and lonely lad, she began to talk to him, and being a woman of the world, soon knew all about ...
— Love Eternal • H. Rider Haggard
... Thee! Help him in his poverty, remember that he can do nothing without Thine aid, Holy Temptress of men, Our Lady of the Pillar, ...
— The Cathedral • Joris-Karl Huysmans


Words linked to "Temptress" :   enchantress, siren, Delilah, adult female, femme fatale, woman


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