coquettish
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From Time Magazine Archive
Coquettish little room where women retire when they have a love-letter to write or any other reason for wishing to be left alone.
From Rambles in Womanland by O'Rell, Max
Coquettish and feline with Alceste, frivolous and back-biting with the little marquises, cruelly ironical with Arsino�, in each act, in each scene, she shows herself under a different aspect.
From Queens of the French Stage by Williams, H. Noel
And still a while the glittering toy, Coquettish, seemed to shun the snare, And then more eager grew the boy, And followed with impetuous air.
From Poems by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)
In Process of Time, however, he perceiv’d she was a little Coquettish, and too much inclin’d to think, that the handsomest young Fellows were always the most virtuous and the greatest Wits.
From Zadig Or, The Book of Fate by Voltaire
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"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner
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