enchantress

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Then the enchantress was a dwarf Who said she was a dwarf There wouldn't be any use throwing her from the tower if she wasn't I didn't say it was any use.

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  1. noun A woman of great charm or fascination.
  2. noun A woman who practices magic; a sorceress.

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  • Once I remember—this occurred before we left Derby—we both fancied ourselves in love with the same dear enchantress, a certain dark-eyed brunette. —  Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland
  • She was an enchantress, all right, and didn't even know it. —  Garwood, Julie - Prince Charming
  • Of course they did not see it made; the spell of the enchantress was not over them; but in their homes they maintained that if Priscilla Winthrop didn't know any more about cosmic philosophy than to pay a woman forty dollars to make a salad dressing like that--and the whole town knows that was the price--the vaunted town of Duxbury, Massachusetts, with its old furniture and new culture, which Priscilla spoke of in such repressed ecstasy, is probably no better than Manitou, Colorado, where they get their Indian goods from Buffalo, New York Such is the perverse reasoning of man. —  Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day
  • Then the enchantress was a dwarf Who said she was a dwarf There wouldn't be any use throwing her from the tower if she wasn't I didn't say it was any use. —  Christmas Every Day and Other Stories
  • I learned all this from the enchantress, who, to add to my affliction, related to me these effects of her rage. —  The Arabian Nights Their Best-known Tales
 

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  1. from Middle English enchaunteresse, from Old French *enchanteresse, French enchanteresse = Italian incantatrice, from Late Latin *incantatrix, feminine of incantator, an enchanter: see enchanter.
 

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/ɛnˈtʃæntrɛs/
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