coquet

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"Sharárif" plur. of Shurráfah=crenelles or battlements; mostly trefoil-shaped; remparts coquets which a six-pounder would crumble.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The moon—she rouges, steals the sun's bright light, By eating stolen bread her living gets,— Is also wont to paint her cheeks at night, While, with untiring ardor, she coquets.

From The Poems of Schiller — Suppressed poems by Schiller, Friedrich

She loves Worthy, whom she pretends to dislike, and coquets with him for twelve months.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

With the pious she is pious, with the Liberals she plays the Liberal, she coquets with every party to maintain her influence as ex-ambassadress.

From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Hillern, Wilhelmine von

He coquets with the conflict of his own understanding and sentiments.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various