(n.) A woman versed in magical arts; a sorceress; also, a woman who fascinates.
Example Sentences:
(1) Last week, the Copenhagen enchantress was speaking English better than the Queen and had a telephone conversation with the French premier in the accent favoured by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.
(2) And, in Tynan's scene-by-scene breakdown of Brooks's most famous movie and in his thralldom to this enchantress, you get a perfect marriage of his critical instinct and lifelong star-worship.
Priestess
Definition:
(n.) A woman who officiated in sacred rites among pagans.
Example Sentences:
(1) As spooky red priestess Melisandre has repeatedly promised: "The night is dark and full of terrors."
(2) Once described by the American critic Stanley Kaufmann as a "reputation in search of a basis", Paltrow was destined from birth to make a film about the high priestess of angst, as they were obviously not going to give the role to Angelina Jolie or Queen Latifah.
(3) In riding a hoverboard, then, you declare that you are for Ayn Rand, high priestess of bonkers libertarianism, and against Charles Baudelaire, poet of the flâneur , hymner of aimless city strolling.
(4) She's not just the 'punk priestess', or the 'rock poet'; she's an incredible torch singer and has put herself on the line.
(5) In one of the final scenes of the third season, a fire priestess whose deity has a proven resurrection capability gets a supernatural glimpse of the big picture and declares, “This war of five kings means nothing.” It’s a lesson sorely needed on the Wall, the 700ft-high sheet of ice that delineates civilization from wilderness.
(6) Sex sells, and what's true for HBO's ratings is true too for Westeros's women who start with nothing: Tyrion's mistress Shae, the mysterious priestess Melisandre, the prostitute Ros who runs Lord Baelish's brothel.
(7) The high-priestess of behaviourist parenting is Channel 4's Supernanny, a makeover programme that has applied the formula of reality TV to parenting and which, according to a 2008 survey, has been watched by 72% of parents.
(8) But it was on Naughtie that Diane Abbott, Labour MP, journalist, television star, formerly the high priestess of New Labour's awkward squad, dropped her bombshell – first mooted in Thursday's Guardian – that she intends to contest the Labour leadership.
(9) It's also home to some fabulously spooky caves, and thus better-known to GoT addicts as the place where dubious Red Priestess, Melisandre of Asshai birthed her murderous shadow baby.