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Lorelei|ˈlɔərəlaɪ|
Also 9 Loreley.
[Name of a rock on the Rhine near Coblenz.]
In German legend, a beautiful woman with long blonde hair who sat on the Lorelei rock and with her fine singing distracted boatmen, so that they drowned when their ships foundered on the rock. Also transf. Cf. siren n. 2.
1878Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 745/1 The Loreley of the Rhine is only a river-siren, though a more exquisite enchantress than ever Greek fancy conceived. 1910‘O. Henry’ Strictly Business (1917) i. 10 Instead of being motoring bacchanalians and diamond-hungry loreleis they are businesslike folk. 1927N. Wainwright tr. Dekobra's Madonna of Sleeping Cars ix. 125 My little Lorelei had unfastened her hair, which fell in a blonde cascade. 1965‘A. Gilbert’ Passenger to Nowhere iii. 42 Probably thought you were the original Lorelei. 1971R. Sale Man who raised Hell iii. vii. 249 She..evolved into the most devastating Lorelei of Mayfair, with an utterly intriguing contempt for the men she could so easily fetter. |
