coquette

Example Sentences

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This is the note I was furiously typing on my phone during Sandy Liang’s presentation: “Girly pop, coquette, hot ticket — obviously. Bandannas!!!”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2024

The powerful, complex female lead was a rarity in traditional music theatre, where operatic tropes were easily assimilated, such as the virginal naif, the coquette, the old shrew.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2021

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