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coquette

noun as in flirt

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The track cemented Thalía’s Latin music star status — an innocent, sexy and cheeky coquette brand was born.

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McCarthy observes that he is “a transvestite’s and fetishist’s dream of alluring ambiguity … a provocative coquette of a boy.”

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The powerful, complex female lead was a rarity in traditional music theatre, where operatic tropes were easily assimilated, such as the virginal naif, the coquette, the old shrew.

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Corrin immediately achieves a balance between the coquette and energetic idealist we picture Diana to be, and her performance invites the viewer into the Princess's interiority almost immediately.

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Sexy did not mean revealing skin or playing the part of the coquette.

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