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

The lover continues his doleful lamenting, which is at last interrupted by the entrance of the May Queen herself, who chides him for his complaints and argues her right to coquet on such a day.

From The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers by Upton, George P. (George Putnam)

If you are so inclined, you play low, and coquet with fortune, or if lavishly given, you throw the reins loose and go free.

From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James

You might almost as well coquet with a minister of the holy Gospel as with him you have selected to try your fascinations on.

From A Romantic Young Lady by Grant, Robert

The coquet is sadly tempted to gather some of the flowers for her own use, but dares not.

From A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Gallini, Giovanni-Andrea