agente provocatrice

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French agente provocatrice.

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˌaʒɒ̃(t) pɹəvɒkəˈtɹiːs/

Noun

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agente provocatrice (plural agentes provocatrices)

  1. 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.

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French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /a.ʒɑ̃t pʁɔ.vɔ.ka.tʁis/

Noun

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agente provocatrice f (plural agentes provocatrices)

  1. female equivalent of agent provocateur

Italian

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Noun

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agente provocatrice f (plural agenti provocatrici, masculine agent provocatore)

  1. female agent provocateur