Crossword clues for lorelei
lorelei
- Her songs lure Rhine boatmen
- Teutonic temptress
- Temptress along the Rhine
- Siren heard on the Rhine?
- Singing siren
- Singing nymph
- Singing Germanic siren
- Sailors' temptress of myth
- Sailor lurer
- Role for Marilyn
- Rock on the Rhine
- River siren
- Rhineland siren
- Rhine menace
- Rhine Gorge siren
- Rhine attraction
- One of the Rhine Maidens
- Mythical singer
- Mythical enticer on the Rhine
- Loos character
- Legendary siren luring Rhine boatmen to destruction
- Legendary Rhine rock
- Legendary Rhine maiden
- Legendary overseas singer?
- Legendary German singer
- German rock singer?
- German mythical siren
- Deadly siren
- Dangerous siren
- Carol Channing role
- Siren luring sailors to shipwreck
- Dangerous singer
- Many a sailor's downfall
- Rhine siren
- Rock singer?
- Singing nymph of the Rhine
- Danger for sailors
- Rhine temptress
- Legendary siren of the Rhine
- Female charmer of myth
- Title maiden in a Heinrich Heine poem
- Prefix with thermal
- "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" blonde
- A siren of German legend who lured boatmen in the Rhine to destruction
- Loos heroine
- Marilyn role
- Shipwreck cause, perhaps
- Role for Channing
- Legendary Rhine menace
- German siren
- Germanic siren featuring in folklore leitmotif
- German siren from tradition that is left over
- Legends garland a siren of the Rhine
- Left two lots of foreign money for rock attraction
- Learning Garland's a beautiful German singer
- Big cat with upset stomach after gentleman gives steak
- Lurer on the Rhine
- Siren on the Rhine
- Siren heard in Germany
- Legendary Rhine siren
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1843, from German, name of a rock in the River Rhine near Koblenz, Germany. In legend, a lovely woman sat atop it and sang while combing her long blond hair, distracting sailors so their ships foundered on the rock and they drowned. The second element of the name probably is Rhenish dialect lei "cliff, rock;" the first element is perhaps from Middle High German lüren "to lie in wait"
Wiktionary
n. A siren; a temptress.
Wikipedia
The Lorelei is a 132 m (433 ft) high, steep slate rock on the right bank of the River Rhine in the Rhine Gorge (or Middle Rhine) at Sankt Goarshausen in Germany.
Lorelei is a feminine water spirit, similar to a siren or mermaid, which is rumored to send sailors to their death, by luring them near cliffs with her beautiful singing voice.
Lorelei, Loralei, Loreley or Lorelai may also refer to:
Lorelei (Lani Ubana) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character's first appearance was in X-Men #63.
Lorelei is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is based on the being of the same name from Germanic mythology.
In the Marvel universe, Lorelei may refer to:
- Lorelei (Asgardian), a supporting character appearing mostly in The Mighty Thor and on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Lorelei (Mutate), a mutant supervillain
- Lorelei Travis, a minor mutant character appearing in the various titles surrounding the X-Men
- Mantis briefly took the name Lorelei as revealed in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Avengers 2005.
"The Lorelei" is a song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin; it was written for their musical Pardon My English (1933).
It is about the Lorelei legend.
The lyrics of "The Lorelei" are transcribed by Ira Gershwin in Lyrics on Several Occasions.
"Lorelei" is a song from rock band Styx. It is on their 1975 album Equinox, and was released as a single in 1976.
Lorelei is a musical with a book by Kenny Solms and Gail Parent, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Jule Styne. It is a revision of the Joseph Fields- Anita Loos book for the 1949 production Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and includes many of the Jule Styne- Leo Robin songs written for the original.
The 1974 Broadway production of Lorelei, directed by Robert Moore and starring Carol Channing, ran for 320 performances.
Lorelei is a feminine given name taken from the name of a rock headland on the Rhine River. Legends say that a maiden named the Lorelei lives on the rock and lures fishermen to their death with her song.
Its Czech name day is 17 August.
Lorelei is a dark rock band formed in Pittsburgh in 2000 by Dan Barone and Susannah Bailis.
Usage examples of "lorelei".
Only one of them, an old woman named Lorelei, happened to notice the firefalls shimmering in the north.
Lake Lorelei and the the River Undine, twisting and threading through the Frankenthal Valley to finally join a tributary of the Danube.
Nestled on a broad flat plateau below the foothills of the northern Alps was the Frankenthal, the Undine River winding through it, taking its source in the oval black mirror of Lake Lorelei.
Ivan Antonov and Raymond Prescott had ridden their flagships into the meat-grinders of Lorelei, Pesthouse, and Home Hive III.
Sir Cyril was fascinated by the mermaids and their lengthy pet, and his fascination must have showed, for Lorelei dimpled prettily at him.
Thebans to shift their defenses in Lorelei to meet a new threat, spreading their forces thinner.
Lorelei, and they might explain why the infidels had conceded the entry warp points.
If Lorelei thought Carole could swim well enough to protect herself against mermaids, then that was good enough for Carole.
The devils in Lorelei had pounded his defenses for days, sending wave after wave of hell-spawned missiles through the warp point.
Lorelei and gave him enough freedom to search for an action to satisfy the Synods constant, hectoring demands that he Do Something.
Then it tore down between the castle-crowned heights, sweeping away the villages on the river banks from Bingen to Coblentz, lashing the projecting rocks of the Lorelei, and carrying off houses, churches, and old abbeys in a rush of ruin.
He had often had thoughts about ships caught long, long ago by the enormous dark star, Lorelei.
The nature of their operation normally allowed Maxine and those under her command free rein to prowl the casinos and walkways of Lorelei at will.
Gunther's big plan was to draw customers by giving better odds that the other casinos on Lorelei.
Gunther’s big plan was to draw customers by giving better odds that the other casinos on Lorelei.