Meanings
plural agentes provocatrices
- 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 Gloom2 more examples
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 ParisManya 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 115Synonyms: agente provocateuse
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA female agent provocateur; a woman who incites someone to do something, especially something incriminating.
Origin
- Frenchagente provocatrice
- Frenchagente provocatrice
- Englishagente provocatrice
Borrowed from French agente provocatrice.
More words from French
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