coquette
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This is the note I was furiously typing on my phone during Sandy Liang’s presentation: “Girly pop, coquette, hot ticket — obviously. Bandannas!!!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2024
The powerful, complex female lead was a rarity in traditional music theatre, where operatic tropes were easily assimilated, such as the virginal naif, the coquette, the old shrew.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2021
This early Parisienne was an accessible figure, a scrappy coquette who loved as hard as she worked.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 19, 2019
The thumb-size short-crested coquette is found only in the forest edge along a roughly 15-mile stretch of road in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountain in southern Mexico.
From National Geographic ● Apr. 18, 2018
On her first arrival he had been dazzled by her extraordinary beauty; but looking upon her as a cold-blooded coquette, he had endeavoured to steel his heart against her.
From The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. II (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors by Various
If these coquettes shared a single trait, it was by no means beauty but an indomitable will to succeed and the ability to overcome natural handicaps.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unlike Chaplin, who was ever the champion of the innocent heroine, Laurel and Hardy usually ran afoul of gold-digging coquettes or nagging wives.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the Walshes went off to Europe to meet King Albert of the Belgians, she licked Baedekers to make her lips red and practiced walking like Parisian coquettes.
From Time Magazine Archive
The live-oaks did very well as cavaliers bending gallantly to catch the tender nothings of the coquettes.
From Tripping with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed
You must allow that those two plaits are only suitable for girls before they are confirmed; the mother was, I believe, a Russian, and now the daughter always coquettes with these two ribbon-interwoven plaits.
From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Rudolf von Gottschall
Vocabulary lists containing coquette
Power Suffix: -ette
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