femmes fatales
- plural of femme fatale.
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
The woman is named Clare Cavendish, and she’s played by Diane Kruger as part of a mother-daughter pair of femmes fatales.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
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
I admit that, as a woman, I prefer film noir featuring strong, intelligent femmes fatales.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2010
