agente provocatrice
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French agente provocatrice.
Pronunciation
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Noun
agente provocatrice (plural agentes provocatrices)
- A female agent provocateur; a woman who incites someone to do something, especially something incriminating.
- 1954, Nicholas Blake, The Whisper in the Gloom:
- “It's a star part I am offering you. The beautiful, slinky agente provocatrice.”
- 1965, Alistair Horne, The Fall of Paris:
- 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 […].
- 1996, Michael Brown, The Israeli-American Connection, p. 115:
- Manya Shohat was charged with having been an agente provocatrice who betrayed Jews to the czarist secret police.
- 1954, Nicholas Blake, The Whisper in the Gloom:
Synonyms
French
Pronunciation
Noun
agente provocatrice f (plural agentes provocatrices)
- (deprecated template usage) feminine equivalent of agent provocateur
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