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agente provocatrice en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌaʒɒ̃(t)pɹəvɒkəˈtɹiːs/ (UK)

Etymology

Borrowed from French agente provocatrice.

Meanings

1. A female agent provocateur; a woman who incites someone to do something, especially something incriminating.
   • 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:
   • “It's a star part I am offering you. The beautiful, slinky agente provocatrice.” 1954, Nicholas Blake, The Whisper in the Gloom:
   • 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:

Forms

Synonyms

agente provocateuse