Definitionn. a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive
Last update: October 10, 2015
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In his letters to his friend Mathilde Wesendonck, it appears that while he was composing Tristan he already had the inspiration of working out the identification of Kundry, the messenger of the Grail, with the temptress who, under the spell of Klingsor, seduces the knights of the Grail; and he had, moreover, thought out the impressively obscure suggestion that she was Herodias, condemned like the wandering Jew to live till the Saviour's second coming. [Please select]
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The temptress held the door open, and beckoned beguilingly. [Please select]
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Life is worth living, says art, the beautiful temptress; life is worth knowing, says science. [Please select]
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An old wrinkled hand, delicately old, delicately wrinkled, inconceivably thin, but with the pink henna stain of the temptress still on palms and fingers. [Please select]
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That secret I deemed locked in my own breast, and in that of one besides--the temptress, the partaker of my guilt. [Please select]
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The handsome flowers glowed about her bodiless head like giant butterflies, congruous jewels for such a temptress of such a frolic. [Please select]
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The temptress who drew him into evil was more than human, and her beauty was greater than the loveliness of the daughters of men. [Please select]
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Deep down in his mind lurked the disquieting suspicion that they were conniving to get the better of the lovely temptress by some sly and secret bit of strategy. [Please select]
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