coquetry

Attracted to Mandy’s curly hair, he sat beside her and, in an attempt at coquetry, opened an H.P.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2022

From Joan’s sincere coquetry at the Avon lunch, to Peggy’s surveillance techniques and expert game-playing, Joan and Peggy leaned over so hard they threatened to overturn the whole damn office.

From Time ● Jun. 3, 2013

She is not at all prim and demure; on the contrary, she is genially expressive, the kind of woman who being devoid of coquetry behaves as she feels.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2012

Her exquisite oval face — framed by short, lank, unwashed-looking hair — is as devoid of a diva’s coquetry as it is of makeup.

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2012

In that ruin of a house, she went about her coquetry, applying her dyes, her pomander and pouncet-box.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

He should know, since it is his right arm that wriggles Miss Piggy through her black-belt coquetries.

From Time Magazine Archive

Claire, not very inexplicably, fell in love with this quiet sardonic man who gently criticized the coquetries she was distributing between a young Fascist and a pair of shady young Neapolitan noblemen.

From Time Magazine Archive

But, such traditional little coquetries aside, the fight was really on; punches were given & taken, toe to toe.

From Time Magazine Archive

My conversation with Madame Dumarteau was not long; she had not an amiable look, but I preferred her ill humor to Madame Piquette's coquetries.

From Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 by Charles Paul de Kock

Mr. Waring was attended by his favorite servant, and madam by her maid, a French grisette, who "made eyes" at Valentine, and otherwise harassed him with her coquetries during the whole journey.

From The Haunted Homestead A Novel by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth