coquette

Example Sentences

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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

Henry showed his first collection on Saturday night, and it was more queen mum than French coquette.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2015

It does not impress me as being the face of a frivolous woman, a coquette, a court butterfly; but rather that of one who is always playing a part which sometimes wearies.

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by McCarthy, Justin