coquet

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

But the triumph is Lady Froth, ‘a great coquet, pretender to poetry, wit, and learning,’ and one would almost as lief have seen Mrs. Mountfort in the part as the Bracegirdle’s Millamant. 

From The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] by G. S. (George Slythe) Street

Love iz a lighted kandel, and coquets fly around it, just az a miller duz, till by-and-by they dive into it, and then what a burnt coquet and miller we hav.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw

The petty kings themselves began now to coquet with Tehrak, and to invite his co-operation in an attempt, which they promised they would make, to throw off the yoke of the Assyrians.

From Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson

Coquets, and prudes, ought tew be compelled to hunt in couples, so that when the coquet haz wounded the game, the prude kan nuss the dieing viktim.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw

Madame coquetted with him in the most captivating and naive manner, with eyes, gestures, and a profusion of compliments, till the Colonel’s old head felt thirty years younger on his padded shoulders.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

The idle wits frequented the public walks, coquetted, and made madrigals.

From Priests, Women, and Families by Jules Michelet

An', father,"—here she coquetted with him—"you and mother are not to 'nopolize him when he comes.

From The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona by Cora Marsland

Away to the westward irregular fragments of thundercloud, which seemed incapable of cohering sufficiently to produce a storm, coquetted with the quivering mountain-tops.

From By Veldt and Kopje by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

Youth, in its divinely suited garb of white, regarded itself with grave eyes for one breathless minute, flushed and coquetted with itself for another, and then was gone from the mirror.

From The Wishing Moon by Louise Elizabeth Dutton

He had not been by while she was coquetting with Lothar.

From The Eichhofs A Romance by Moritz von Reichenbach

For, young as was the younger daughter of Ambrose Powell, she was no child of simplicity, but could play at coquetting with the oldest and cleverest coquette there.

From No Quarter! by Mayne Reid

The goldfinches swept by overhead with a gleam of colour from their wings, coquetting on their way to the apple-trees.

From Greene Ferne Farm by Richard Jefferies

Summer zephyrs were coquetting with the sombre pine-branches; summer-scents were stealing up to Jessie's windows from the garden.

From Jessamine A Novel by Marion Harland

He must have been couching somewhere, the funny old rogue, behind the Pole; he must have been coquetting with the beauties of Greenland or Nova Zembla.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various