agente provocatrice

UK/ˌaʒɒ̃(t)pɹəvɒkəˈtɹiːs/

noun

A female agent provocateur; a woman who incites someone to do something, especially something incriminating.

Meanings

nounagente provocatrice (plural agentes provocatrices)

plural agentes provocatrices

  1. A female agent provocateur; a woman who incites someone to do something, especially something incriminating.

    “It's a star part I am offering you. The beautiful, slinky agente provocatrice.”

    1954, Nicholas Blake, The Whisper in the Gloom
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    Rigault set an agente provocatrice to pick up the judge in a café; then, once the bait had been taken, Rigault arraigned the judge with seducing his sister […].

    1965, Alistair Horne, The Fall of Paris

    Manya Shohat was charged with having been an agente provocatrice who betrayed Jews to the czarist secret police.

    1996, Michael Brown, The Israeli-American Connection, page 115

    Synonyms: agente provocateuse

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA female agent provocateur; a woman who incites someone to do something, especially something incriminating.

Origin

  1. Frenchagente provocatrice
  2. Frenchagente provocatrice
  3. Englishagente provocatrice

Borrowed from French agente provocatrice.

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