coquet

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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

His Letters shew him to have lived in a continual fever of petty vanity, and to have been a finished literary coquet.

From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Waller, Alfred Rayney

The simplicity of the remedy is so attractive that it is not surprising that the Governments of industrial nations should coquet from time to time with the policy of compulsory arbitration.

From The Acquisitive Society by Tawney, R. H.

But the triumph is Lady Froth, ‘a great coquet, pretender to poetry, wit, and learning,’ and one would almost as lief have seen Mrs. Mountfort in the part as the Bracegirdle’s Millamant. 

From The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] by Street, G. S. (George Slythe)

The horse was feeding some six rods off, near Peakslow's pair, when the dog, singling him out, ran up and began to coquet with him, flourishing the ear of corn.

From The Young Surveyor; or Jack on the Prairies by Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)