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• n  a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive

• Hayworth was sweet and lovable in Cover Girl (1944), but she was also the timeless temptress in Gilda (1946), doing a wild rendition of Put the Blame on Mame for Glenn Ford, as .
• They projected "a vivid image of the evil temptress, from whom it is no far cry to the 'witch' or 'hag.
• Billy's true bete noire is an extremely comely black temptress named Lucy.

• enchantress
• siren
• Delilah
• femme fatale

News & Articles

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• Dancer Rosemarie Black Dies At 79
  One of Chicago's more colorful characters is dead. Exotic dancer Rosemarie Black, known as "The Bronze Temptress" and "Racetrack Rosie" was 79 when she died last week.
  June 10, 2013 - CBS Chicago
• Watch Alexis Bledel Give a Wet Willy in Her New Movie Violet & Daisy
  In 2010, Geoffrey Fletcher won an Oscar for scripting Precious, which made us squirm by showing us abuse and incest. His follow-up, Violet & Daisy (in theaters today), which he wrote and directed, is almost as provocative. The bloody dark comedy stars former Gilmore Girl turned Man Men temptress Alexis ... More »
  June 7, 2013 - Vulture

Quotes

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• Mr Blackwell in MTV.com
  In barely-there bombs, she's a taste-free pain/ Let's crown her the tacky temptress of Wisteria Lane,Blackwell wrote of her sartorial slip-ups.
• Sienna Miller in Monsters and Critics.com
  Sienna said: "The bath scene is very erotic. There's been a lot of talk about it and I suppose the whole lesbian ménage-a-trois thing is great publicity for the film. Keira plays the temptress and I play a more reserved person. The setting in the...
• Denyce Graves in Orlando Sentinel
  I know Dalila gets sort of a bad rap,says Graves. "People see her as this evil temptress. But I think she is as devoted to her god and her people as is Samson."