coquet

Example Sentences

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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 Lever, Charles James

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 Waller, Alfred Rayney

In Prussia it has been the habit, from time immemorial, for the heir to the throne to coquet with the Liberals, and to be supposed to entertain progressive opinions.

From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Labouchere, Henry

The coquet is sadly tempted to gather some of the flowers for her own use, but dares not.

From A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Gallini, Giovanni-Andrea