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 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 William Ernst Browning

The petty kings themselves began now to coquet with Tehrak, and to invite his co-operation in an attempt, which they promised they would make, to throw off the yoke of the Assyrians.

From Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson

“Peter ywotisk, Peter kekoosh, moyout win coquet talenque.”

From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Gordon Stables

But no! she had drawn him on: not by coquetry—Audrey was far too high-minded to coquet with any man—but simply by the warm friendliness of her manner.

From Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey

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

It was evident that Terence had coquetted with them merely to study their plans.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

I don't believe that Helen Rankine coquetted with you.

From Eleven Possible Cases by Franklin Fyles

The dance commenced with a slow gliding step, the dancers holding the ropes with one hand, while with the other the ladies coquetted their mantillas.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various

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

Otherwise his career had been much like other careers, denouncing, or coquetting and even pressing for office, equable in expectation, and vindictive if refused.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery

Remember, no vagaries, no irregularities, no coquetting with the ‘one time that never hurts one.’

From The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel by John Strange Winter

They fancied that M. Thiers was coquetting with the émeute, that the petit bourgeois, as he hypocritically called himself, wanted to cozen the monarchists, and, using Paris as his lever, overthrow them.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary

Emmie sang two more songs, Julia laughing and coquetting with Ethan over prelude and interlude; and then Julia played a nocturne.

From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins

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