coquet

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

“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

The petty kings themselves began now to coquet with Tehrak, and to invite his co-operation in an attempt, which they promised they would make, to throw off the yoke of the Assyrians.

From Ancient Egypt by Rawlinson, George

They are, he thinks, dilettanti, sentimentalists, who coquet with the misery of the masses, in order to serve the same up well spiced and warmed to their luxurious and fashionable readers.

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various

My private opinyun ov a coquet iz, that if they suckceed in dieing an old maid, they don’t deserve all the punishment they receive.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.

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

It was great fun," he says; "no one can have an idea how Moscheles and I coquetted together on the piano—how the one constantly imitated the other, and how sweet we were.

From Fragments of an Autobiography by Moscheles, Felix

She spread out her fan in the highest good-humour and coquetted behind it.

From The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century by Heyer, Georgette

She coquetted, human-fashion, with the gold-and-black dog—at one moment affecting to scorn him, at another meeting his advances with a delighted friendliness.

From Lad: A Dog by Terhune, Albert Payson

She should have remembered he was not to be coquetted with.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel

Emmie sang two more songs, Julia laughing and coquetting with Ethan over prelude and interlude; and then Julia played a nocturne.

From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Robins, Elizabeth

Otherwise his career had been much like other careers, denouncing, or coquetting and even pressing for office, equable in expectation, and vindictive if refused.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose

The goldfinches swept by overhead with a gleam of colour from their wings, coquetting on their way to the apple-trees.

From Greene Ferne Farm by Jefferies, Richard

They fancied that M. Thiers was coquetting with the émeute, that the petit bourgeois, as he hypocritically called himself, wanted to cozen the monarchists, and, using Paris as his lever, overthrow them.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.

Summer zephyrs were coquetting with the sombre pine-branches; summer-scents were stealing up to Jessie's windows from the garden.

From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion