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▪ I. provo1, provoe|prəʊˈvəʊ|
Also with capital initial.
1. A spelling of provost, representing a pronunciation after F. prévôt (prevo, formerly prəˈvoː): cf. provost n. 7. Also transf., a provost-cell.
c1675Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.) Satire Follies Age Wks. (1752) 112 But if I laugh when the court-coxcombs show, To see the booby Sotus dance provoe;..To me the name of railer strait you give. 1692Siege Lymerick 6 The Prisoners were immediately put into the Provo's Custody. 1705Lond. Gaz. No. 4183/4 Duncan Robinson..was..sent to the Provo's. 1746M. Hughes Jrnl. Late Rebell. 7 The Duke..ordered that seven Rebels should go down into the Well, take their dead Bodies out and bury them; which the Captain of the Provo saw done. 1779New-Jersey Jrnl. (Chatham, N.J.) 13 Apr. 3/1 The other two are safely lodged in the provo of the continental troops. 1832W. Dunlap Hist. Amer. Theatre iv. 43 The Jail, then called the provo, where American prisoners suffered for asserting the rights of their country, scowled on the east. 1865W. Reid in Cincinnati Daily Gaz. 13 Dec. 1/3 He was boasting of his success with the ‘cussed free niggers’. We've got a Provo' in our town that settles their hash mighty quick. He's a downright high-toned man, that Provo', if he is a Yankee.
2. Comb., as provo-marshal: cf. provost-marshal.
1919G. B. Shaw Peace Conference Hints vii. 102 The estimate of military crime which any statistician can give..without consulting a provo-marshal. 1934― Too True to be Good ii. 50 Offences which cannot be stated on a charge sheet and dealt with by the provo-marshal.
▪ II. provo, Provo2|ˈprəʊvəʊ|
[a. Du. provo, abbrev. of F. provocateur.]
A member of a group of young Dutch agitators of anarchist persuasion, whose policy was to provoke the authorities; the Dutch anarchist group or movement. Also attrib.
1966Times 15 June 1/5 For several weeks there has been unrest in Amsterdam. Young men and women calling themselves ‘provos’, from the French provocateur, who reject any authority or discipline, have gathered in certain parts of the city to provoke police intervention. 1967Listener 19 Jan. 83/2 A somewhat riotous group of youngsters, who called themselves Provos, organized themselves and started to prove the validity of their organization's name by provoking the authorities. 1967J. Eastwood Little Dragon from Peking x. 97 Hitch⁓hikers, autostops, Blousons noirs, provos from Amsterdam. 1968Listener 22 Feb. 233/1 Police action against a Provo demonstrator when Princess Beatrice of the Netherlands was married in 1966. 1970New Yorker 8 Aug. 50/3 One of the most interesting aspects of Provo, the Dutch movement that was among the first and brightest of the radical movements of the last decade, was that it blossomed forth with a number of responsible civic ideas. 1976J. van de Wetering Corpse on Dike v. 58 You look funny..but you don't look like a hippie or a provo or a bird-of-protest.
▪ III. provo, Provo3 colloq.|ˈprəʊvəʊ, ˈprɒvəʊ|
[abbrev. of provisional a. (n.).]
A member of the Provisional I.R.A. Also attrib. or as adj.
1971Guardian 14 Aug. 9/7 In their bombing campaign the Provos seem to have hit on a policy..described as being the best way to bring down Stormont. 1972New Yorker 19 Feb. 52/2 There are still no more than a few thousand I.R.A. men, Provo or Official, in the Six Counties. The Officials have less than half as many members as the Provos. 1973Daily Tel. 27 Jan. 1/2 IRA men who recognise courts are automatically disowned by the Provos. 1976Church Times 26 Nov. 5/2 The march squelched on to a new rallying point as a mob of Provo IRA thugs had barred the way into Falls Park. 1977Cork Examiner 8 June 16/2 The Provos also claim that two soldiers were killed in a bomb explosion in West Belfast. |