Meanings
plural provocateuses
- A female provocateur.
She echoes another Brooklyn transplant, the rapping global provocateuse M.I.A. (who appears on the album), with agressive^([sic]) chants and electro riffs in “Creator” and “Unstoppable.”
2008 April 28, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021Synonyms: provocatrice, provocatrix
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA female provocateur.
Origin
Pseudo-Gallicism, derived from provocateur + -euse, as the French female equivalent of provocateur is provocatrice.
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