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

—Yes, yesterday, then they had been able to make plans, Maurits and she, how she should coquet with uncle, but to-day she had no thought of carrying them out.

From Invisible Links by Lagerlöf, Selma

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

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

His wings moved so slowly he seemed to fly without pressure on the air—as slowly as a lady fans herself when there is no one to coquet with.

From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard

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