Pronounced: KAHN-truh-ver-tuh-buhl, adj
Notes: I should have known the definition
Yesterday’s word
The word Lorelei is “a dangerously seductive woman”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1800s
Background / Comments
I happen to know a teenager named Lorelei; she most certainly is nothing like her name definition. Our word came from German legends; Lorelei was a nymph who sat on a rock (also called Lorelei) on the Rhine river and lured sailors with her songs to their destruction on the rock.
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