charmeuses

Ms. Yanowsky is a major soloist, and her air of intelligence and authority are most welcome amid the Royal Ballet, which used to feature too many soubrettes and charmeuses.

Ballet in London: The Royal’s ‘Sylvia’ - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

Ms. Yanowsky is a major soloist, and her air of intelligence and authority are most welcome amid the Royal Ballet, which used to feature too many soubrettes and charmeuses.

Ballet in London: The Royal’s ‘Sylvia’ - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

There are a fair few high end natural fiber fabrics- wool crepes, suitings and flannels, silk georgettes, charmeuses and dupionis, but not a lot of cottons, or at least not last time I was there.

Vegas, Baby! - A Dress A Day 2007

Jägerhaus, and Wilhelmine's innate desire to please -- that impulse which must ever belong to the 'charmeurs' and especially to the 'charmeuses' of the world -- taught her to forget her sadness when she was with her friends, and thus some brighter hours were passed.

A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg 1905

The answer is that no charming woman is ever plain, even if someone -- Voltaire, perhaps -- spoke of "_les laides charmeuses_."

Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Edward Fordham Spence 1896