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

—Yes, yesterday, then they had been able to make plans, Maurits and she, how she should coquet with uncle, but to-day she had no thought of carrying them out.

From Invisible Links by Lagerlöf, Selma

Have I played the coquet with you, Juancho?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various

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 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