femmes fatales
Alluring dangerous women
Femmes fatales is the plural of femme fatale, a seductive woman who leads men into danger or ruin.
The type appears throughout literature and film noir—beautiful, mysterious, manipulating men through sexual allure: The detective knew better than to trust femmes fatales, but he couldn't resist her.
The French plural is standard in English.
- seductressWoman who entices romantically
- vampAlluring seductress
- temptressWoman who entices
- ravishingStrikingly, entrancingly attractive
- sirenWailing alert device
enchantress · charmer · honey trap · Salome · Mata Hari · double agent · magnetic · fascinating · dark lady · Carmen · intoxicating · kiss of death · betrayal · Morgan le Fay · double-crossing · smoke and mirrors · film noir · adventuress
femmes fatalesdamsels in distress
Women requiring salvation
ingenues · wallflowers · shrinking violets · Sleeping Beauty · kept women
femmes fatalesVirgin Mary
Mother of Christ
girl next door · saints · angels · Mary Poppins · Donna Reed
fatal, feminine, femininity, fatality, femme, fatalism, effeminate, nonfatal, fatalistic