agente provocatrice
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French agente provocatrice.
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Noun edit
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, page 115:
- Manya Shohat was charged with having been an agente provocatrice who betrayed Jews to the czarist secret police.
Synonyms edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
agente provocatrice f (plural agentes provocatrices)
- female equivalent of agent provocateur
Italian edit
Noun edit
agente provocatrice f (plural agenti provocatrici, masculine agent provocatore)