vampyre

English

Noun

vampyre (plural vampyres)

  1. Archaic and pseudo-archaic form of vampire.
    • 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 153:
      The Servians paint crosses with tar on the doors of houses and barns to keep out vampyres.
    • 2000 November 24, Margaret Mittelbach, Michael Crewdson, “To Die For: Painting the Town Red, and the Capes and Nails Black”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 7 December 2025:
      Although "gothic," "dark fetish," "faerie," "Wiccan" and "Celtic" are all acceptable garb, patrons (most of whom are in their 20's and 30's) usually opt for "vampyre" or simply all black. […] (Vampyres like to spell their name with the "y" to distinguish themselves from literary or Hollywood vamps.)
    • 2007 February 24, Isobel Montgomery, James Smart, Keith Brooke, “Spooked”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎[2], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 7 December 2025:
      Most of Manhattan's 4,000 vampires - or "vampyres", as Huston prefers to call them - have organised themselves into clans: […]
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