coquetry
Americannoun
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coquetries
plural
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the behavior or arts of a coquette; flirtation.
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dalliance; trifling.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of coquetry
From the French word coquetterie, dating back to 1650–60. See coquette, -ery
Example Sentences
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Attracted to Mandy’s curly hair, he sat beside her and, in an attempt at coquetry, opened an H.P.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
Her exquisite oval face — framed by short, lank, unwashed-looking hair — is as devoid of a diva’s coquetry as it is of makeup.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2012
"The second toilette is nothing but a game invented by coquetry," observed Louis-Sébastien Mercier.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2011
The ladies' opening song, "We're Just Two Little Girls from Little Rock," is a smashing duet in which Russell's by-now natural bravado plays cleverly off, and reinforces, Monroe's coquetry.
From Time ● Mar. 4, 2011
Sometimes she looked at Wang Lung, fully and without coquetry as a child does, and he watched her and was proud of what he had done.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
But, such traditional little coquetries aside, the fight was really on; punches were given & taken, toe to toe.
From Time Magazine Archive
He should know, since it is his right arm that wriggles Miss Piggy through her black-belt coquetries.
From Time Magazine Archive
Claire, not very inexplicably, fell in love with this quiet sardonic man who gently criticized the coquetries she was distributing between a young Fascist and a pair of shady young Neapolitan noblemen.
From Time Magazine Archive
At last it occurred to her to have a photograph taken for him of Baby, who with her childish coquetries had gradually become dearer and dearer to her father's heart.
From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Ossip Schubin
Against her probable future in this rough camp, how small the present looked, how little were her coquetries, her innocent wiles!
From The Westerners by Stewart Edward White
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