Devouress

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A female devourer. obsolete

    "She was a devouress of men, exhausting one and then moving on to the next."

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"She was a devouress of men, exhausting one and then moving on to the next."

Etymology

Shortened from devoureress, from the Old French devoureresse, feminine form of devoreor.

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