femme fatale


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
femme fatale /ˌfam fəˈtɑːl/
noun (pl. femmes fatales pronunc. same) an attractive and seductive woman.
– origin early 20th cent.: Fr., lit. ‘disastrous woman’.
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