provocatrice

Noun

provocatrice (plural provocatrices)

1. (rare) A female provocateur.
   • 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...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...
   • 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.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

   Synonyms:

   provocateuse, provocatrix