Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"attractive and dangerous woman," 1895, from French femme fatale, attested by 1844, from French femme "woman," from Latin femina (see feminine) + fatale (see fatal).\n\nUne femme fatale est une femme qui porte malheur.
[Jules Claretie, "La Vie a Paris," 1896]
\nEarlier, such a woman might be called a Circe.Wiktionary
n. An attractive and seductive but ultimately dangerous woman.
WordNet
n. a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive [syn: enchantress, temptress, siren, Delilah]
Wikipedia
A femme fatale is an archetypal character of literature and art.
Femme Fatale may also refer to:
Femme Fatale is a 2002 French erotic thriller/ mystery film directed by Brian De Palma. The film stars Rebecca Romijn and Antonio Banderas. It was screened out of competition at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
"Femme Fatale" is a song by The Velvet Underground from their 1967 debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico, with lead vocals by Nico. At producer Andy Warhol's request, band frontman Lou Reed wrote the song about Warhol superstar Edie Sedgwick. The song was released as a B-Side to " Sunday Morning" in December 1966. It is one of the gentler songs of the album, coming as a direct contrast to the previous, abrasive song, " I'm Waiting for the Man".
Femme Fatale is the debut studio album by American hard rock band Femme Fatale, released in 1988 through MCA Records. It peaked at #141 on The Billboard 200 the following year.
The song "Touch and Go" was featured on the soundtrack of the 1988 film License to Drive.
"Femme Fatale" was the Cypriot entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, sung by Evdokia Kadi. The song was composed by Nicos Evagelou and was written by Vangelis Evangelou.
It performed at the second semi-final Eurovision Song Contest 2008 on 22 May 2008. It performed 17th on the night (following Malta's Morena with " Vodka" and preceding Macedonia's Tamara, Vrčak and Adrijan and " Let Me Love You"). At the close of the voting received 36 points, placing 15th in a field of 19 and did not pass to the final.
The song was succeeded at the 2009 contest by Christina Metaxa with " Firefly".
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Femme Fatale is the fourth studio album by American R&B/jazz artist Miki Howard. Released in 1992 under Giant Records, the album peaked at No. 110 on Billboard 200 and No. 7 on Billboard's Top R&B Albums chart. The first single, " Ain't Nobody Like You", reached No. 1 on the R&B Singles chart, her second number one on the chart. The follow-up single, "Release Me", peaked at No. 43 on the chart. A 'cover' of Billie Holiday's, " Good Morning Heartache" and ("Shining Through" released as a single), received modest radio-airplay on US R&B and jazz stations.
Femme Fatale is the final album by Hungarian guitarist Gábor Szabó featuring performances recorded in 1979 and released on the Hungarian Pepita label in 1981.
Femme Fatale (English title: Fatal Woman) is a 1991 American drama film, directed by Andre R. Guttfreund.
Femme Fatale is the seventh studio album by American recording artist Britney Spears. It was released on March 25, 2011, by JIVE Records. Spears wanted to make a "fresh-sounding" and "fierce dance album", incorporating dance-pop and electropop styles with elements of dubstep, techno, and trance. She began working on the album during the second leg of The Circus Starring Britney Spears (2009), while also working on her second compilation album The Singles Collection (2009). Contributions to its production came from a variety of producers and songwriters, including long-time collaborator Max Martin in addition to Dr. Luke, William Orbit, Fraser T Smith, Rodney Jerkins, Bloodshy & Avant. will.i.am, and StarGate.
Upon its release, Femme Fatale received generally favorable reviews from music critics, who complimented its production and dance-pop style, but noted Spears' supposed lack of involvement and heavily processed vocals. She received zero songwriting credits on the album (aside from the bonus track, "Scary,"), which had not been done by her since her earlier years. Some stated that Spears was no longer the center of the album and found a trade-off to be real personality. Ryan Tedder however, defended her, saying that Frank Sinatra and Garth Brooks were huge artists who didn't write most of their songs. The album debuted atop of the charts in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Russia, South Korea and the United States, and peaking inside the top ten in twenty-four countries. In the United States, she earned her sixth number one album.
Four singles were released from the album. It became Spears's first album to have three top 10 singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, with " Hold It Against Me", " Till the World Ends", and " I Wanna Go" peaking at numbers one, three, and seven, respectively. The fourth and final single " Criminal" peaked at number one in Brazil and in the top twenty in five countries. Spears promoted the album with television performances, the Femme Fatale Tour, and collaborations with Kesha, Nicki Minaj, Travis Barker, and Rihanna.
Usage examples of "femme fatale".
There is the femme fatale in every sense of the word, and there is the femme fatale who is not a femme fatale in every sense of the word.
These paintings were to become his most famous, perhaps because the brush strokes were emotional in a way his earlier paintings of her as a femme fatale were only physical, but they mark a change in his work that shows a glimmer of the great artist he could have been.
Men, the entire bloody species, preferred to play the innocent bystander entrapped by the femme fatale.
Elizabeth Short took up six whole pages, most of the ink portraying her as a slinky femme fatale in a tight black dress.
It was harder to be a femme fatale if you were built like an overripe pear-a size six on top and size fourteen on the bottom.
Perhaps we should think of it as the ultimate femme fatale: vengeful fury appointed by Rap-paccini to settle all his earthly accounts.
Perhaps we should think of it as the ultimate femme fatale: vengeful fury appointed by Rappaccini to settle all his earthly accounts.