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

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

The wife at last made her appearance, at once a slattern and a coquet; much emaciated, but still carrying the remains of beauty.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest

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 Shaw, Henry W.

In the last century there lived a man who, in his young days, was a desperate coquet.

From Indian Story and Song from North America by Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham)