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

Just here Hazel entered and replenished the hearth, stopping half-way, with her armful of brush, to coquet an instant in the mirror, and adjust the scarlet love-knot in her curls.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 by Various

His Letters shew him to have lived in a continual fever of petty vanity, and to have been a finished literary coquet.

From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Alfred Rayney Waller

Suckcess iz a coquet, and a bashful lover never wins her.

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

The horse was feeding some six rods off, near Peakslow's pair, when the dog, singling him out, ran up and began to coquet with him, flourishing the ear of corn.

From The Young Surveyor; or Jack on the Prairies by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge

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

He had 323 passed all his years in school, fed, clad, thought for, commanded; and had grown familiar and coquetted with the fear of punishment.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

It was evident that Terence had coquetted with them merely to study their plans.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

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

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

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

Eddying into every quiet bay, coquetting with every salient angle, moving to the melody of its own murmurs, it flows on serenely and musically.

From The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts by George W. Holley

Remember, no vagaries, no irregularities, no coquetting with the ‘one time that never hurts one.’

From The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel by John Strange Winter

The ostler watched her pick her way towards her master, coquetting with her head, and sidling round him in the most playful manner possible.

From The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century by Georgette Heyer

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