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coquette
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And she knew that she wasn't helping matters by playing the coquette with André, but suddenly she didn't care. ▪ She was not a coquette , he had decided. ▪ The demeanour of a virgin can be converted into that of a coquette .
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" Coquette " is a 1928 fox trot jazz standard . It was composed by Johnny Green and Carmen Lombardo , with lyrics by Gus Kahn .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coquette \Co*quette"\, n. [F., fr. coquet, coquette, coquettish, orig., cocklike, strutting like a cock, fr. coq a cock. Cf. Cock , Cocket , Cocky , Cockade .] A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A woman who flirts or plays with men's affections. vb. (alt form coquet English)
Usage examples of coquette.
The lady meanwhile kindly raised them, and having spoken of the courage and generosity of their sons, who exposed themselves to the fury of wolves rather than take flight and abandon her, she said that her name was the Fairy Coquette, and that she would willingly relate her history.
The night was young, the pretty Queen an incorrigible coquette, and it was likely they would all have their chance, in time.
Bierce Valeur twitched his long-handled hook, and the soiled cord went flying, to be caught in mid-air by a Coquette who screamed in delight at her good fortune.
You may see two or three fluttering around to-night, if you care to look on, but I wish no friend of mine to make sport, at serious cost to himself, for yonder incorrigible coquette, if she is my cousin.
It must be so, for surely the shallow coquette had not much to express.
But all at once, playing the coquette, she gets angry because I do not conceal from her looks the very apparent proof that her charms have some effect on a particular part of my being, and she refuses to grant me the favour which would soon afford both relief and calm.
The young girl tilted her head sideways, regarding Kit with the air of the practiced coquette, her mannerisms vaguely familiar and oddly disconcerting.
I imagined that he would be handsome and gallant, but perhaps a little shy, so that I would have to coquette a little to put him at his ease.
Edgar thought her degenerating into the character of a coquette, and Camilla, in his intended tour, anticipated a period to all their intercourse.
Edgar never saw her engaged by Sir Sedley, but he thought her youthfully grateful, and esteemed her the more, or beheld her as a mere coquette, and ceased to esteem her at all.
She tried to sound the coquette like some of the debutantes she had met.
Among these Cavaliers and Coquettes, Compeer Bierce Valeur has assumed a certain celebrity status.
The Cavaliers and Coquettes of Kokotte, always at the forefront, were particularly conspicuous today.
To drown out criticism, the Coquettes and their male counterparts began to sing a mock-worshipful hymn to the Kokotte, set to a tune so bumptiously catchy that the crowd was soon joining in the choruses.
At the forefront of the crowd, clustered about the base of the scaffold, frisked the Cavaliers and Coquettes of Kokotte.