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

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

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

“Peter ywotisk, Peter kekoosh, moyout win coquet talenque.”

From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Gordon Stables

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

In Prussia it has been the habit, from time immemorial, for the heir to the throne to coquet with the Liberals, and to be supposed to entertain progressive opinions.

From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Henry Labouchere

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

A bright red rose showed among the manifold braids of her black hair, and she had in her hand a rose-colored fan, with which she coquetted very prettily.

From A Reconstructed Marriage by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

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

It is wonderful how you have coquetted with every reason which may excuse our marriage except the only one that justifies it.”

From The Locusts' Years by Mary Helen Fee

And as he spoke he smiled and coquetted with the portrait, as though to say, "Don't mind my saying all this to your face."

From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever

It appears in the tender and so infinitely sad lines which he wrote in prison, and likewise in the Confessions, a vain, exaggeratedly candid and coquetting portrait in prose.

From Paul Verlaine by Stefan Zweig

In short he had given way to the belief that she had been coquetting with him.

From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid

His associate officers loitered through the listless days, coquetting with the pretty wife of the barber, smoking cigars in the shop, and listening to the petty gossip of the place.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

Smarting under these injuries, Bourbon, who for some time had been coquetting with the enemies of France, renewed his negotiations with the emperor and Henry VIII. of England.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various

Otherwise his career had been much like other careers, denouncing, or coquetting and even pressing for office, equable in expectation, and vindictive if refused.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery