provocatrice

From French provocatrice.

provocatrice (plural provocatrices)

1. (rare) A female provocateur.

   Synonyms: provocateuse, provocatrix

   • 1938, Neil H[armon] Swanson, “In Which Black Roger Solves a Puzzle, and Merrily Gorth Becomes a Forbidden Woman”, in The Forbidden Ground, New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: Farrar & Rinehart, →OCLC, page 88:

     In these last ten days in the settle-bed, he had reached one other definite though qualified conclusion: if the legend was true, he had lost Merrily completely, and for one simple reason. The reason was this: she was the one woman he could truly love. She was a provocatrice, yes. An accomplished flirt, yes. No better than she should be, by the gossip, yes. But he loved her.

   • 2014, Melissa Lane, “Cosmopolitanism”, in The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, published 2016, →ISBN, page 237:

     The Sceptic will be no provocateur or provocatrice; if we imagine a female Sceptic, she will have no doctrinal reason for doing anything to provoke her neighbours or the authorities.

   • 2016, Bev Jafek, “The Beginning: The Sacred Beasts”, in The Sacred Beasts, Fairfield, Calif.: Bink Books, →ISBN, page 89:

     After she died, I knew what she would say all the time. Now, I must think even to remember. She would say . . . well, she was a provocatrice. She would throw down the gauntlet in anything she said.

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.vɔ.ka.tʁis/

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• Homophone: provocatrices

provocatrice f (plural provocatrices, masculine provocateur)

1. female equivalent of provocateur

• IPA^(key): /pro.vo.kaˈtri.t͡ʃe/
• Rhymes: -itʃe
• Hyphenation: pro‧vo‧ca‧trì‧ce

provocatrice

1. feminine singular of provocatore

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [proː.wɔ.kaːˈtriː.kɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pro.vo.kaˈt̪riː.t͡ʃe]

prōvocātrīce

1. ablative singular of prōvocātrīx