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Paired with a signature lace trim, Mendoza’s one-of-a-kind pieces are coquette staples that balance cultural pride and individuality.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

The powerful, complex female lead was a rarity in traditional music theatre, where operatic tropes were easily assimilated, such as the virginal naif, the coquette, the old shrew.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2021

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

But Miss Wolfe, though far from a coquette, was gifted with presence of mind.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

When the Walshes went off to Europe to meet King Albert of the Belgians, she licked Baedekers to make her lips red and practiced walking like Parisian coquettes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unlike Chaplin, who was ever the champion of the innocent heroine, Laurel and Hardy usually ran afoul of gold-digging coquettes or nagging wives.

From Time Magazine Archive

If these coquettes shared a single trait, it was by no means beauty but an indomitable will to succeed and the ability to overcome natural handicaps.

From Time Magazine Archive

You must allow that those two plaits are only suitable for girls before they are confirmed; the mother was, I believe, a Russian, and now the daughter always coquettes with these two ribbon-interwoven plaits.

From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Rudolf von Gottschall

Surrounded with the noisy clans Of prudes, coquettes and harridans.

From The Little Tea Book by George Washington Hood