coquet
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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
The Graces from the court did next provide Breeding, and wit, and air, and decent pride: These Venus cleans'd from ev'ry spurious grain Of nice coquet, affected, pert, and vain.
From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by William Ernst Browning
The lover continues his doleful lamenting, which is at last interrupted by the entrance of the May Queen herself, who chides him for his complaints and argues her right to coquet on such a day.
From The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers by George P. (George Putnam) Upton
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
So she coquetted even with suffering and found pleasure in bearing it gracefully.
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern
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
The dance commenced with a slow gliding step, the dancers holding the ropes with one hand, while with the other the ladies coquetted their mantillas.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
She coquetted, human-fashion, with the gold-and-black dog—at one moment affecting to scorn him, at another meeting his advances with a delighted friendliness.
From Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune
Footnote 17: A coquetting with virtue as a virtuoso, of course Gaspard means.
From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul
Will they be outweighed by the preservation of one's self-respect, and is not this, after all, a matter of opinion?--is it not a sort of coquetting with one's self?
From A Twofold Life by Wilhelmine von Hillern
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
Yes, by dividing cord wood into stove lengths, toying with the spade, coquetting with big bundles of grain.
From Revisiting the Earth by James Langdon Hill
She was more like herself now, laughing softly and coquetting with the hole in the cave.
From Nobody's Child by Elizabeth Dejeans
