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

Suckcess iz a coquet, and a bashful lover never wins her.

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

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 Brooke, Frances

But the triumph is Lady Froth, ‘a great coquet, pretender to poetry, wit, and learning,’ and one would almost as lief have seen Mrs. Mountfort in the part as the Bracegirdle’s Millamant. 

From The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] by Street, G. S. (George Slythe)

“Peter ywotisk, Peter kekoosh, moyout win coquet talenque.”

From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Stables, Gordon