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

"The second is richer, but your choice c'est plus coquet."

From White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

My private opinyun ov a coquet iz, that if they suckceed in dieing an old maid, they don’t deserve all the punishment they receive.

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

You will say, I am a coquet even in friendship; and I am not quite sure you are not in the right.

From The History of Emily Montague by Frances Brooke

Have I played the coquet with you, Juancho?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various

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

For some time her pen coquetted with country trifles, as if the writer were trying to escape from an unpleasant topic which nevertheless forced itself into notice, and at last banished every other.

From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by William Davy Watson

Fanny coquetted with the smart young men in the neighbourhood, and Oliver flirted with the pretty girls; not seeming to perceive that Fanny was the prettiest of all.

From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie

Peter glowed with rage to think all the world could penetrate this slight transparency; he burned with jealous fury as Eveline smiled, coquetted, cast glances here, there, and was stared at through a hundred opera-glasses.

From Black Diamonds by Mór Jókai

Pretty and intelligent, she coquetted with every one, and with me in particular; then, after some encouragement, she jilted me for a Bavarian lieutenant with rosy cheeks.

From Annouchka A Tale by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

But Heine is to our view always the same, always the representative of humor with "a laughing tear" in his escutcheon, always the poetic anomaly, coquetting with his pain and scoffing it away.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various

With Heine, too, who at that time was coquetting with Communism, he carried on a sprightly and not unfruitful intercourse.

From The life and teaching of Karl Marx by M. Beer

They fancied that M. Thiers was coquetting with the émeute, that the petit bourgeois, as he hypocritically called himself, wanted to cozen the monarchists, and, using Paris as his lever, overthrow them.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary

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

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