[ svɛn'gα:li ]
■ noun a person who exercises a controlling influence on another, especially for a sinister purpose.
Origin
~ , a musician in George du Maurier's novel Trilby (1894) who controls Trilby's stage singing hypnotically.
[ svɛn'gα:li ]
■ noun a person who exercises a controlling influence on another, especially for a sinister purpose.
Origin
~ , a musician in George du Maurier's novel Trilby (1894) who controls Trilby's stage singing hypnotically.
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004