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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
seductress
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dorothy Dandridge played Carmen, here a seductress who works in a parachute factory.
▪ Enter Theresa Russell, a sultry, sloe-eyed seductress with a problem of her own.
▪ He has some idea of me as a cheating seductress out to get his brother.
▪ One problem: Both the wife and the seductress are the same woman, Patricia Arquette.
▪ They look for femmefatale, a Mata Hari of world finance, a seductress.
▪ Whitaker and Givens give the proceedings a much needed lift and the latter shows promise and the conniving seductress.
▪ Women felt they were being asked to fulfil two contradictory roles, that of the homemaker and the seductress, simultaneously.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seductress

Seductress \Se*duc"tress\, n. A woman who seduces; a female seducer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
seductress

1803, "female seducer," with -ess + obsolete seductor (late 15c., displaced by seducer), from a direct borrowing of the Latin agent noun of seducere (see seduce).

Wiktionary
seductress

n. 1 A woman skilled and practiced at seduction. 2 A woman who seduces.

Usage examples of "seductress".

She was a skilled seductress, and there was no question in his mind that he would be easily seduced.

Maggie had never really thought of herself as a seductress, but she had pressed that first kiss to his lips and set off that whole heated first exchange.

Lolita is a seductress and often, in the process, confound the issue of virginity with the question of rape.

Is Lolita a vixen seductress or the innocent victim of molestation and exploitation?

With tight lips and a bitten back curse, he steadied his tipsy seductress and asked where she kept her nightclothes.

In the heart of the cloud Kathy Jon Crumb was facing the seductress and her uncle.

She ran her hand across the top of the bed, inviting him to join her, playing the game of seductress and yet feeling like a young girl ready for her first time.

The seductress nestled into her seat once more as she turned her gaze back to the source of the wavering glow.

Every muscle of his body tensed and he fought for control, battled the seductress with every bit of willpower remaining in him after so many years.

It was perfectly possible that she was insane, sitting on his bed at one in the morning with her pall-like flu and sallow complexion, her allergies and rapt expression, assailing him with talk of the devil, a manipulative vamp, a psychotic seductress, secretly out to ruin his life, the intentional undoing of a priest.

The seductress did not even give any hope to the unfortunate young man, for hope, real hope, was given him only at the very last moment, when he, kneeling before his tormentress, stretched out to her his hands already stained with the blood of his father and rival : precisely in that position he was arrested.

They reminded her that, whether she be a staid spinster or a genteel lady or a wanton seductress, she was first and foremost a woman.

He heard blood ebbing, flowing in veins, beckoning, a sweet seductress, teasing his senses until his craving was an obsession as dark and relentless as the shadow across his soul.

Nyssa had felt that for Seria to be an effective seductress she needed to know the full score.

To Reich she was the epitome of the modern career girl---the virgin seductress.