coquetry

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Coquetry is defined as an attempt to attract admiration and lead the lover up to the point of a matrimonial proposal and then reject him—a desire to gratify personal vanity.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers by Hubbard, Elbert

All that I aim at by this Dissertation is, to cure it of several disagreeable Notes, and in particular of those little Jarrings and Dissonances which arise from Anger, Censoriousness, Gossiping and Coquetry.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

This pretty Childishness of Behaviour is one of the most refined Parts of Coquetry, and is not to be attained in Perfection, by Ladies that do not Travel for their Improvement.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

She is practising to-day Coquetry and glances' play Not from love, but fright.

From Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works by Kalidasa

"Coquetry and French cookery pall upon a man who has lived all his life abroad, and he actually longs for a little plain diet, in manners as well as meals."

From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Lever, Charles James