Enchanting lady in gold — goddess boarding ship (9)
I believe the answer is:
sorceress
'enchanting lady' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'gold goddess boarding ship' is the wordplay.
'gold' becomes 'or' ('or' is the heraldic name for gold).
'goddess' becomes 'ceres' (I've seen this before).
'boarding' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'ship' becomes 'SS' (prefix in ship names eg SS Great Britain).
'or'+'ceres'='orceres'
'orceres' put within 'ss' is 'SORCERESS'.
'in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for sorceress that I've seen before include "Say, Medea" , "Spell-casting female" , "She spells" , "Circe, perhaps" , "charming female" .)