vampirette

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

vampire +‎ -ette

Noun[edit]

vampirette (plural vampirettes)

  1. A female vampire.
    • 1999, Laurence A. Rickels, The vampire lectures, page 161:
      The bond with the dead, at once sister and young bride, may give us another perspective on the same-sex eroticism that, all agree, this male writer imagines and creates between the vampirette and her victim.
    • 2009 April 12, Larry Doyle, “Iggy in Underland”, in New York Times[1]:
      There will be no stores open at midnight for the latest Pinkwater, no nerd swarms, girl gaggles or nerd-girl swaggles, cloaked as wizards or vampirettes, whining at the doors, demanding completion.

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