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- noun A
siren ; atemptress .
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Examples
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Beautiful greenhead, out on the fields speckles are cackling their wild lorelei;
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Beautiful greenhead, out on the fields speckles are cackling their wild lorelei;
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Nikki ha? ok lol. at first i totally believed you, but then lorelei moving to paris w/Chris?
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A pool, a lorelei, a … Hey, is that Marilyn Monroe?
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Pumpkin was sitting with the lorelei, making kissy faces at her.
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She stared at the lorelei for a long moment, thinking.
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She looked over her shoulder at the lorelei, who sat in her tub, grinning at her ambiguously.
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As the lorelei fluttered her eyelashes at him, Pumpkin blushed.
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The bikini-clad lorelei lit up and, as if in reply, hundreds of lights came on just under the surface of the water around her.
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The lorelei blew water into the air in a thin arc and floated to the side of the pool, staring at Pumpkin expectantly with big glossy eyes.
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chained_bear commented on the word lorelei
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. See also siren.
River, river have mercy, take me down to the sea
For if I perish on these rocks, my love no more I'll see
I've thought of you in far-off places, puzzled over lipstick traces
So help me God, I will not cry--and then I think of Lorelei
--"Lorelei," the Pogues, c. 1989 Phillip Chevron
February 7, 2007
carlgardner commented on the word lorelei
It's important to say that Heinrich Heine wrote the famous poem, Die Lorelei, which, if perhaps not the actual origin of the legend (I don't know enough to say) is so famous that it has in effect become the legend. I think the Nazis tried to create a myth that it was an anonymous folk poem, in an attempt to expunge Heine's name.
April 7, 2009