Crossword clues for temptress
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Temptress \Tempt"ress\, n. A woman who entices.
She was my temptress, the foul provoker.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from tempter + -ess.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An alluring woman who seduces or exploits men. 2 A woman considered sexually attractive by men.
WordNet
n. a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive [syn: enchantress, siren, Delilah, femme fatale]
Usage examples of "temptress".
Part pixie, part temptress, her pouty little mouth curved with enticing humor, the way her eyes sparkled with warmth and the remnants of arousal.
Then he would look to Griaule, the mighty green hill with its protruding, lowered head, and to Magali in her nest, and would have a sense of the mystery of their triangular liaison, the complex skein that had been woven and its imponderable potentials, and thereupon he would briefly regain a perspective from which he was able to perceive the dual nature of her beauty, that of the woman and that of the sleek, sculptural beast with lacquered scales, monster and temptress in one.
That stupid canaille Harkins had botched up an opportunity to get his hands on the green-eyed temptress.
I was five weeks on the Temptress and it wasn't till I left that I dyed my hair this hellish colour, had a plastic surgeon fix up this scar and affected a limp.
When early folklorists learned that Nixen were temptresses, they'd probably jumped to the conclusion that they were a form of siren.
But like all great temptresses, this poem had her hidden wilesher tricks.
He went through three telephone temptresses before they switched him to Nina's line.
The South is full of temptresses and lusty cowgirls and it has matriarchs galore but few sorceresses.