coquette
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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
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
There is a manly passion in his playing that never condescends to coquette with the submissive strings; it wailed enough that night for anything, and yet never degenerated into imitation.
From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth
Vocabulary lists containing coquette
Power Suffix: -ette
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