coquette
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Paired with a signature lace trim, Mendoza’s one-of-a-kind pieces are coquette staples that balance cultural pride and individuality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
Corrin immediately achieves a balance between the coquette and energetic idealist we picture Diana to be, and her performance invites the viewer into the Princess's interiority almost immediately.
From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2020
This early Parisienne was an accessible figure, a scrappy coquette who loved as hard as she worked.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 19, 2019
The thumb-size short-crested coquette is found only in the forest edge along a roughly 15-mile stretch of road in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountain in southern Mexico.
From National Geographic ● Apr. 18, 2018
She might have been coquette par instinct, if not par calent; she might have felt, with feminine tacte, that to preserve her influence over Petrarch, it was necessary to preserve his respect.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various
When the Walshes went off to Europe to meet King Albert of the Belgians, she licked Baedekers to make her lips red and practiced walking like Parisian coquettes.
From Time Magazine Archive
If these coquettes shared a single trait, it was by no means beauty but an indomitable will to succeed and the ability to overcome natural handicaps.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unlike Chaplin, who was ever the champion of the innocent heroine, Laurel and Hardy usually ran afoul of gold-digging coquettes or nagging wives.
From Time Magazine Archive
You coquettes, as you English people call them, always do; and then, when all your angry, cruel things are said, you become tender, and gentle, and sweet.
From One Maid's Mischief by George Manville Fenn
Certain it was, that there was no place where our village coquettes attracted half so many eyes or led astray half so many hearts.
From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Vocabulary lists containing coquette
Power Suffix: -ette
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