temptress
Americannoun
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temptresses
plural
noun
Gender
See -ess.
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Origin of temptress
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By 1381, the duke's reputation was at an all time low, and Swynford was targeted as "an abominable temptress."
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2022
He later directed her at the Met, where she sang the title role in a new staging of Bizet's Carmen, portraying the heroine as a "pouty teenager" rather than the sultry temptress of most productions.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2022
The Warner Bros. movie, starring Paul Muni as an Eastside lawyer named Johnny Ramirez and Bette Davis as the temptress whom he spurns, was popular when released.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2021
Loveliness, in fiction, typically graces a pair of archetypes: the angel and the temptress.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2018
“And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
Late in 2021, Wallen was featured on a hip-hop single by the rapper Lil Durk, “Broadway Girls,” singing about the temptresses of Nashville’s Lower Broadway honky-tonks.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2023
Through their story, Miller and Wheeler aim to re-shape the legend of King Arthur by placing women in positions of power as opposed to relegating them to mere objects of desire or sinister temptresses.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2020
Danielle Darrieux, a luminous beauty of French cinema whose portrayals of wistful ingenues, romantic temptresses and tragic adulteresses spanned more than eight decades, died Oct.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 19, 2017
Of all the temptresses in Dark Shadows, Green most acutely understands how to play for both humor and horror.
From Time ● May 10, 2012
They shed many tears of anguish over the faithlessness of husbands; tears of hatred over the viciousness of temptresses.
From The Man from Brodney's by George Barr McCutcheon
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