Beauty, Sensual
66. Beauty, Sensual (See also Beauty, Feminine; Sex Symbol.)
- Angelica infidel princess of exquisite grace and charm. [Ital. Lit.: Orlando Innamorato; Orlando Furioso ]
- Borgia, Lucrezia (1480–1519) her beauty was as legendary as her rumored vices and heartlessness. [Ital. Hist.: Plumb, 59]
- Buchanan, Daisy Jay Gatsby’s femme fatale. [Am. Lit.: The Great Gatsby ]
- Cleopatra seductive queen of Egypt; beloved by Marc Antony. [Br. Lit.: Antony and Cleopatra ]
- Helen of Troy Faust’s desire to possess her makes him faint. [Ger. Lit.: Faust ]
- Jezebel Phoenician princess; enemy of the prophets; name is a byword for wicked woman. [O.T.: I Kings 16:21, 31; II Kings 9:1–10, 30–37]
- Lolita precociously seductive 12-year-old. [Am. Lit.: Lolita ]
- Madeline gazed at in awe by Porphyro. [Br. Lit.: “The Eve of St. Agnes” in Magill I, 263–264]
- Montez, Lola (c. 1818–1861) Irish singer and dancer; mistress to famous men. [Irish Hist.: NCE, 1821]
- Phryne courtesan, acquitted of charge by baring bosom. [Gk. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 830]
- Playmate of the Month nude girl provocatively gracing Playboy’s centerfold. [Am. Culture: Flexner, 285]
- Queen of Sheba sultry Biblical queen who visits Solomon. [O.T.: I Kings 10]
- Salome seductive dancer who obtains head of John the Baptist as reward. [N.T.: Matthew 14:3, 11]
- Vye, Eustacia capricious, seductive, trouble-making heroine. [Br. Lit.: Return of the Native, Harvey, 690]
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