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

But no! she had drawn him on: not by coquetry—Audrey was far too high-minded to coquet with any man—but simply by the warm friendliness of her manner.

From Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey

In the last century there lived a man who, in his young days, was a desperate coquet.

From Indian Story and Song from North America by Alice C. (Alice Cunningham) Fletcher

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 Alfred Rayney Waller

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

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

I don't believe that Helen Rankine coquetted with you.

From Eleven Possible Cases by Franklin Fyles

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 Felix Moscheles

Much of what my grandfather had told me of the first Pretender was repeated, save that as the first had made alliance with the Mohammedans, so the second coquetted with the Christians.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

Becker, indeed, once coquetted with the thought of patronising him; but the project had no sequel, and it stands alone.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

It appears in the tender and so infinitely sad lines which he wrote in prison, and likewise in the Confessions, a vain, exaggeratedly candid and coquetting portrait in prose.

From Paul Verlaine by Stefan Zweig

Yes, by dividing cord wood into stove lengths, toying with the spade, coquetting with big bundles of grain.

From Revisiting the Earth by James Langdon Hill

He had not been by while she was coquetting with Lothar.

From The Eichhofs A Romance by Moritz von Reichenbach

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 Richard Jefferies

The blooming rose conceals an asp, And bliss, coquetting, flies the grasp.

From A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Hannah Jane Locker-Lampson