temptress

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Thus a temptress is any girl that girl-watchers watch, if I may borrow a phrase from the 60s and early 70s.

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  • Of an age with Gyro, dark-haired and lithe, this temptress was none other than Ginger Barks. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 02 - February 2000
  • Says even the sweetest woman in the world can be a deceiver and a temptress, and when men believe them, they can be led to commit the worst of crimes. —  Robin Hobb
  • Being a temptress was even more fun than being an heiress, she discovered. —  THE MISTRESS
  • You'll be a temptress, and catch the eye of that special guy. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • Vandana can be a temptress, a seductress and is a complete woman according to me. —  Top Stories - Google News
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  1. Formerly also tempteress; from Middle English temptresse, from Old French temptresse (cf. French tentatrice = Italian tentatrice); as tempter + -ess.
 

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/ˈtɛmptrɛs/
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