| 单词 |
temptress |
| 释义 |
temptress|ˈtɛm(p)trɪs| [f. tempter + -ess.] A female tempter.
1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. Wks. (Grosart) V. 80 The place..was a pernicious curtizans house named Tabitha the Temptresses. 1633Ford Broken H. v. ii, Be not jealous, Euphranea; I shall scarcely prove a temptress. 1826Scott Woodst. ii, That the daughter..would, like the wicked wife of Job, become a temptress to her father in the hour of affliction. 1883G. H. Boughton in Harper's Mag. Jan. 179/1 St. Anthony and his undraped temptress. |

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