coquette

Example Sentences

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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

The Musetta here was another American, Susanna Phillips, beautiful of voice and mien if not yet a seasoned coquette.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2016

We were still laughing, I am sure, when the old coquette was a long way from the house.

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