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provocatrice

noun

Etymology

From French provocatrice.

  1. borrowed from provocatrice

Definitions

  1. A female provocateur.

    • 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.
    • 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.

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