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
She placed a hand on each cheek, tilted her head like a stage coquette and pouted moodily.
From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2019
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
That Charnock might refuse to help her, because with tears in her eyes she had played the sedulous coquette, she had been prepared to acknowledge.
From Miranda of the Balcony A Story by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodle)
Vocabulary lists containing coquette
Power Suffix: -ette
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"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 15
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"The Night Before Christmas" by Nikolai Gogol
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