temptress

American  

[temp-tris] / ˈtɛmp trɪs /

noun

temptresses plural

1. a woman who tempts, entices, or allures.

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temptress British  

/ ˈtɛmptrɪs /

noun

1. a woman who sets out to allure or seduce a man or men; seductress

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Gender

See -ess.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• temptresses
  plural

Etymology

Origin of temptress

First recorded in 1585–95; tempt(e)r + -ess

Example Sentences

Hoppert: The sire of this third-place Preakness finisher is Curlin, who had stamina and speed, and his dam is Temptress, by Tapit.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2018

Temptress, lover, sufferer, scrapper — those have been Ms. Manson’s personae since Garbage started in 1995.

From New York Times • May 23, 2012

In “Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy,” Abbott claims that “as many as four hundred women, in both North and South, were posing and fighting as men.”

From Washington Post

Stiller was fired from The Temptress, their only American film together.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then there is the recent case of Temptress, a fifteen-year-old girl whose misdeeds landed her in Albany County Family Court in New York.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt