femme fatale
an irresistibly attractive woman, especially one who leads men into difficult, dangerous, or disastrous situations; siren.
Origin of femme fatale
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How to use femme fatale in a sentence
There is a heist motif running through the film and an amnesia motif and a noirish femme fatale motif too.
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Sometimes they bring out the femme fatale who uses her sexuality like a weapon.
When the two began dating in 2005, Winehouse was hardly the rock-around-the-clock femme fatale she would later become.
She's the femme-fatale on steroids and on the surface, she seems to suggest the writer's belief in gender equality.
To impressionable spectators she seemed a real femme fatale.
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British Dictionary definitions for femme fatale
/ French (fam fatal, English ˈfɛm fəˈtæl, -ˈtɑːl) /
an alluring or seductive woman, esp one who causes men to love her to their own distress
Origin of femme fatale
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