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Noun
machinateur m (plural machinateurs, feminine machinatrice)
- agent noun of machiner; schemer
1837, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XXXIV, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume II, Paris: J-J Dubochet et Cie, éditeurs, , →OCLC:Mais ce qui étonnait le plus la duchesse, c’était que la simplicité de Sancho fût telle qu’il arrivât à croire comme une vérité infaillible que Dulcinée du Toboso était enchantée, tandis qu’il avait été lui-même l’enchanteur et le machinateur de toute l’affaire.- But what surprised the duchess the most, was that Sancho's simplicity was such that he came to believe as an infallible truth that Dulcinea del Toboso had been enchanted, while he himself had been the enchanter and the schemer of the whole affair.
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