coquetry

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Coquetry has no such votaries as the young.

From That Boy Of Norcott's by Lever, Charles James

Coquetry, any notion of archness or frivolity, must be rigorously banished.

From Famous Prima Donnas by Strang, Lewis Clinton

Coquetry is defined as an attempt to attract admiration and lead the lover up to the point of a matrimonial proposal and then reject him—a desire to gratify personal vanity.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers by Hubbard, Elbert

This pretty Childishness of Behaviour is one of the most refined Parts of Coquetry, and is not to be attained in Perfection, by Ladies that do not Travel for their Improvement.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

Coquetry is no virtue; but most certainly it is not the wholesale corrupter some moralists would make it.

From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James