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US
/ˈɫɔɹɪˌɫaɪ/
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NOUN
- a Siren of German legend who lured boatmen in the Rhine to destruction
How To Use Lorelei In A Sentence
- Felicity Maxwell had left Lorelei's cigarettes and matches on a little table by the left arm of Lorelei 's chair. DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
- Beautiful greenhead, out on the fields speckles are cackling their wild lorelei; Contest: Translate Duck Speak, Win Decoys (and More!)
- And here he was, driving past the Lorelei, when he saw a huge signboard on the front wall: Lorelei
- It had never entered my head that I had what it took to dolmetsch … While a student, I had learned the first stanza of Die Lorelei by rote from a college roommate, and I happened to give those lines a dogged rendition while working within earshot of the battalion commander … Humor
- 'There are naiads, nymphs, nixes, kelpies - loreleis, selkies, sirens - though the last two prefer the sea. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
- Lorelei had become experienced with this devilry of trickery because this was what she had been doing for the 365 days since that day far, far away.
- Lorelei considered for a couple of seconds, uttered a simple `No", and Felicity retired, dismissed but not apparently offended. DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
- Then someone on the boat begins to sing in German the song of the Lorelei.
- Lorelei looked down onto her hands in abashment.
- A cruder lover of power might tyrannize over a drudge, but Lorelei is an epicure. DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE