saboteuse

saboteuse

English

Etymology

From French saboteuse.

Noun

saboteuse (plural saboteuses)

1. female equivalent of saboteur
   • 1976, Constantine FitzGibbon, Secret Intelligence in the Twentieth Century, New York, N.Y.: Stein and Day, published 1977, →ISBN, page 86:

     ‘Our spies’ are heroes or better still heroines (Nurse Cavell, who was less a spy than a saboteuse) although we can of course say nothing about them until they are caught and executed.

   • 1994, Brian Myers, Han Sŏrya and North Korean Literature: The Failure of Socialist Realism in the DPRK (Cornell East Asia Series), →ISBN, page 106:

     Then there is Haebangt’ap (Liberation Tower, 1953), whose adolescent but motherly heroine Chŏmsun, a saboteuse in UN-occupied Pyongyang, is constantly striving to cultivate the spontaneity of her younger male comrades.

   • 1998, Miranda Pollard, Reign of Virtue: Mobilizing Gender in Vichy France, Chicago, Ill.; London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 193:

     These conspicuous “professionals” were facilitating a more diffuse sexual/national sabotage, where abortion really represented treason, where women were the symbolic saboteuses of France.

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French

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Noun

saboteuse f (plural saboteuses)

1. female equivalent of saboteur