Lorelei
WordNet

noun


(1)   A Siren of German legend who lured boatmen in the Rhine to destruction
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Etymology


From the Lorelei rock on the Rhine, which was haunted by one of these creatures according to German legend.

Noun



  1. a siren; a temptress
    • 1965, William Henry Davenport, Ben Siegel, Biography past and present: selections and critical essays
      We grew silly, tongue-tied, said foolish things we did not mean to say, shoved one another about in the boat, and finally overturned it. The loreleis laughed musical little laughs.
    • 1977: She was like a mermaid, an isolated creature that lives in fulfillment of its own senses; she lured me on, she was the lorelei of the gleaming river of traffic with its million, brilliant eyes that intermittently flowed between us. — Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve
 
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