lorelei

See also: Lorelei

English

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

lorelei (plural loreleis)

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, Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve:
  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.

siren, temptress