coquet

Example Sentences

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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

He is the veriest coquet in nature, for, after all, I amconvincedam convinced he loves Emily.

From The History of Emily Montague by Brooke, Frances

His Letters shew him to have lived in a continual fever of petty vanity, and to have been a finished literary coquet.

From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Waller, Alfred Rayney

—Yes, yesterday, then they had been able to make plans, Maurits and she, how she should coquet with uncle, but to-day she had no thought of carrying them out.

From Invisible Links by Lagerlöf, Selma

Even to the end she would deck herself and coquet to her glass.

From At a Winter's Fire by Capes, Bernard Edward Joseph