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

In the last century there lived a man who, in his young days, was a desperate coquet.

From Indian Story and Song from North America by Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham)

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

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

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 Prichard, Katharine Susannah

I am not quite the heartless coquet I seem.

From Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life by Moodie, Susanna