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

It seemed to coquet with Dawe Armitage; to pour out its infinitesimal stars—-red, blue, green, gold, and amethyst—blazing, splintering, and coruscating to dazzle and bewilder him.

From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah

I am not quite the heartless coquet I seem.

From Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life by Moodie, Susanna

Just here Hazel entered and replenished the hearth, stopping half-way, with her armful of brush, to coquet an instant in the mirror, and adjust the scarlet love-knot in her curls.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 by Various

Even to the end she would deck herself and coquet to her glass.

From At a Winter's Fire by Capes, Bernard Edward Joseph