coquette
Example Sentences
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Corrin immediately achieves a balance between the coquette and energetic idealist we picture Diana to be, and her performance invites the viewer into the Princess's interiority almost immediately.
From Salon • Nov. 14, 2020
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
Henry showed his first collection on Saturday night, and it was more queen mum than French coquette.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2015
Steel was a good neighbor, but common report stigmatized his sister as a reckless coquette, and by the momentary contraction of Beatrice Haldane's forehead I feared that she had heard the gossip.
From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Bindloss, Harold
Vocabulary lists containing coquette
Power Suffix: -ette
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"The Night Before Christmas" by Nikolai Gogol
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