intrigante

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noun

A female intriguer.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

nounintrigante (plural intrigantes)

plural intrigantes

  1. datedA female intriguer.

    It is curious to find her on one occasion surreptitiously opening a letter of her husband's to one Sarah Ryan, a housekeeper, an intrigante […]

    1862, The Living Age, volume 72, page 188

Origin

  1. Frenchintrigante
  2. Frenchintrigante
  3. Englishintrigante

Borrowed from French intrigante.

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Chicago

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