femme fatale
noun
an irresistibly attractive woman, especially one who leads men into difficult, dangerous, or disastrous situations; siren.
femmes fatales
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pluralof femme fatale.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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And even fewer resemble the glamorous femmes fatales that populate TV and film melodramas about the narco world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
There are bunnies, duck races and a human menagerie of fops, fools and femmes fatales.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2018
And not just the femmes fatales, but women like the aforementioned Anne Riordan, the cop’s daughter who helps Marlowe break the case in Farewell, My Lovely.
From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2018
Today’s girls are neither “tough girls,” like that moto-jacketed Salander; nor femmes fatales, like the vixens who dominated noir fiction and films; nor “good girls” like Nancy and her prim posse, Bess and George.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2017
A couple of dames who were contemporaries of Hammett are the antidote to all this – 40s American femmes fatales Dorothy B Hughes and Margaret Millar, the godmothers of noir.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 29, 2012
