The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coquetry \Co*quet"ry\, n.; pl. Coquetries. [F. coquetterie.]
Attempts to attract admiration, notice, or love, for the mere
gratification of vanity; trifling in love. ``Little
affectations of coquetry.''
--Addison.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of coquetry English)
Usage examples of "coquetries".
Mademoiselle, who had never been exercised in the coquetries of her sex, and was now arrived at those years when the vanity of youth ought to yield to discretion, considered the proposal as a philosopher, and after due deliberation candidly owned she had no objection to the match.
He fitted in the various joints with care, as if to be sure no accident had happened to the implement by the journey--pried anxiously into the contents of a black case of lines and flies--slung the basket behind his back, and while his horse was putting down his nose and whisking about his tail, in the course of those nameless coquetries that horses carry on with hostlers--our worthy brother of the rod strode rapidly through some green fields, gained the riverside, and began fishing with much semblance of earnest interest in the sport.
But he treated her without discourtesy, and Phade, testing him with all her hundred and one coquetries, not infrequently thought to detect a spark of response.
All the little coquetries which make them so exquisite when they do not definitely belong to us cease as soon as they become ours.