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

She laugh and make the mock at him, and play coquet with the others before his face.

From Roger Ingleton, Minor by Reed, Talbot Baines

In Prussia it has been the habit, from time immemorial, for the heir to the throne to coquet with the Liberals, and to be supposed to entertain progressive opinions.

From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Labouchere, Henry

Just here Hazel entered and replenished the hearth, stopping half-way, with her armful of brush, to coquet an instant in the mirror, and adjust the scarlet love-knot in her curls.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 by Various

It is a place of fugitive resort, an heterogeneous assemblage of sea-mews and stockbrokers, Amphitrites of the town, and misses that coquet with the Ocean.

From Hastings and Neighbourhood by Higgins, Walter