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Female entertainer executed as a spy
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mata hari
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Mata Hari is a musical with a book by Jerome Coopersmith , lyrics by Martin Charnin and music by Edward Thomas. The exotic dancer Mata Hari was accused of spying for the Germans during World War I and was executed by a French firing squad, but her guilt ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stage name taken by exotic dancer Margaretha Gertruida Zelle (1876-1917), from Malay mata "eye" + hari "day, dawn."
Usage examples of mata hari.
What you do about that is your business, but be certain, we are not asking you to play Mata Hari.
You make it sound like I'm some Mata Hari, but I've never done any undercover work at all.
Before seeing what sort of a book I was going to have here, I wrote the dedication 'To Mata Hari.
When she was fourteen years old her brother Sean had taught her a smutty rhyme about Mata Hari.