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vampirette en · NOUN

Etymology

From vampire + -ette.

Meanings

1. A female vampire.
   • 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. 2009 April 12, Larry Doyle, “Iggy in Underland”, in New York Times:
   • 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. 1999, Laurence A. Rickels, The vampire lectures, page 161:

Forms

Synonyms

vampiress · vampirina