coquet

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

"The second is richer, but your choice c'est plus coquet."

From White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If you are so inclined, you play low, and coquet with fortune, or if lavishly given, you throw the reins loose and go free.

From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever

It seemed to coquet with Dawe Armitage; to pour out its infinitesimal stars—-red, blue, green, gold, and amethyst—blazing, splintering, and coruscating to dazzle and bewilder him.

From The Black Opal by Katharine Susannah Prichard

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 Walter Higgins

Madame coquetted with him in the most captivating and naive manner, with eyes, gestures, and a profusion of compliments, till the Colonel’s old head felt thirty years younger on his padded shoulders.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

For some time her pen coquetted with country trifles, as if the writer were trying to escape from an unpleasant topic which nevertheless forced itself into notice, and at last banished every other.

From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by William Davy Watson

A bright red rose showed among the manifold braids of her black hair, and she had in her hand a rose-colored fan, with which she coquetted very prettily.

From A Reconstructed Marriage by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

So she coquetted even with suffering and found pleasure in bearing it gracefully.

From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern

Much of what my grandfather had told me of the first Pretender was repeated, save that as the first had made alliance with the Mohammedans, so the second coquetted with the Christians.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

But Heine is to our view always the same, always the representative of humor with "a laughing tear" in his escutcheon, always the poetic anomaly, coquetting with his pain and scoffing it away.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various

But the economical, hygienic and domestic reasons were all against the journey; so a few days ago I ceased coquetting with the idea of it, and have finally given it up.

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by William James

"Is she only coquetting with me?" he asked himself, "or--or--" A passionate joy throbbed in his veins, then suddenly an icy shudder ran over him.

From Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso by Ossip Schubin

Then Nellie, who had been coquetting with his hopes and fears, had once again plunged him into the depths.

From Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life by Charles King

The blooming rose conceals an asp, And bliss, coquetting, flies the grasp.

From A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Hannah Jane Locker-Lampson