coquet

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

Coquets, and prudes, ought tew be compelled to hunt in couples, so that when the coquet haz wounded the game, the prude kan nuss the dieing viktim.

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

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 G. S. (George Slythe) Street

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 Ernest Rhys

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

From Roger Ingleton, Minor by Talbot Baines Reed

Madame coquetted with him in the most captivating and naive manner, with eyes, gestures, and a profusion of compliments, till the Colonel’s old head felt thirty years younger on his padded shoulders.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

For some time her pen coquetted with country trifles, as if the writer were trying to escape from an unpleasant topic which nevertheless forced itself into notice, and at last banished every other.

From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by William Davy Watson

It was great fun," he says; "no one can have an idea how Moscheles and I coquetted together on the piano—how the one constantly imitated the other, and how sweet we were.

From Fragments of an Autobiography by Felix Moscheles

She should have remembered he was not to be coquetted with.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

Becker, indeed, once coquetted with the thought of patronising him; but the project had no sequel, and it stands alone.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Thus he passed successively into the hands of the Scots, the Parliament and the New Model, trying to reverse the verdict of arms by coquetting with each in turn.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

He was exactly fitted to hew his way to the Presidency, and he would have done so infallibly if he had not made the mistake of coquetting with slavery.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life by William H. Herndon

The conjurer twists first one, then two, butterflies out of a bit of white paper, and, by means of a fan, causes them to fly and poise as if they were coquetting with July breezes.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe

For, young as was the younger daughter of Ambrose Powell, she was no child of simplicity, but could play at coquetting with the oldest and cleverest coquette there.

From No Quarter! by Mayne Reid

In short he had given way to the belief that she had been coquetting with him.

From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid