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
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
Have I played the coquet with you, Juancho?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various
“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
The wife at last made her appearance, at once a slattern and a coquet; much emaciated, but still carrying the remains of beauty.
From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Ernest Rhys
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
And as he spoke he smiled and coquetted with the portrait, as though to say, "Don't mind my saying all this to your face."
From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever
Away to the westward irregular fragments of thundercloud, which seemed incapable of cohering sufficiently to produce a storm, coquetted with the quivering mountain-tops.
From By Veldt and Kopje by W. C. (William Charles) Scully
An', father,"—here she coquetted with him—"you and mother are not to 'nopolize him when he comes.
From The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona by Cora Marsland
The idle wits frequented the public walks, coquetted, and made madrigals.
From Priests, Women, and Families by Jules Michelet
His associate officers loitered through the listless days, coquetting with the pretty wife of the barber, smoking cigars in the shop, and listening to the petty gossip of the place.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
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
In short he had given way to the belief that she had been coquetting with him.
From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid
The ostler watched her pick her way towards her master, coquetting with her head, and sidling round him in the most playful manner possible.
From The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century by Georgette Heyer
Eddying into every quiet bay, coquetting with every salient angle, moving to the melody of its own murmurs, it flows on serenely and musically.
From The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts by George W. Holley
