coquet

Example Sentences

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A: I'm afraid I was a bit of a coquet in my youth, but now that I'm a grandmother with an 18-year-old granddaughter, I'm simplifying what I wear.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2010

Coquets, and prudes, ought tew be compelled to hunt in couples, so that when the coquet haz wounded the game, the prude kan nuss the dieing viktim.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.

The Graces from the court did next provide Breeding, and wit, and air, and decent pride: These Venus cleans'd from ev'ry spurious grain Of nice coquet, affected, pert, and vain.

From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by Browning, William Ernst

It is a place of fugitive resort, an heterogeneous assemblage of sea-mews and stockbrokers, Amphitrites of the town, and misses that coquet with the Ocean.

From Hastings and Neighbourhood by Higgins, Walter

He is the veriest coquet in nature, for, after all, I amconvincedam convinced he loves Emily.

From The History of Emily Montague by Brooke, Frances