Etymology

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