‖ intriguante, -gante
(ɪntrɪˈgɑːnt, -æ-, F. ɛ̃trigɑ̃t)
[F. intriguante, -gante, fem. of intriguant, -gant: see prec.]
A woman who intrigues.
| 1806 M. Edgeworth Leonora (1832) 54 Md⊇. de P― is a perfect specimen of the combination of an intrigante and an élégante. 1823 Byron Juan xiv. lxiii, Her Grace too pass'd for being an intrigante..One of those pretty, precious plagues, which haunt A lover with caprices soft and dear. 1829 Lytton Devereux iii. vii, My Mistress was the greatest intriguante of her party. 1856 Vaughan Mystics viii. iv. (1860) II. 51 That he must toil in obscurity..to subserve the ambition of an implacable intriguante. |