coquette
noun
a woman who flirts lightheartedly with men to win their admiration and affection; flirt.
coquettes
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pluralof coquette.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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When the Walshes went off to Europe to meet King Albert of the Belgians, she licked Baedekers to make her lips red and practiced walking like Parisian coquettes.
From Time Magazine Archive
If these coquettes shared a single trait, it was by no means beauty but an indomitable will to succeed and the ability to overcome natural handicaps.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unlike Chaplin, who was ever the champion of the innocent heroine, Laurel and Hardy usually ran afoul of gold-digging coquettes or nagging wives.
From Time Magazine Archive
And it may be added that, while flirts have often been known to make very good wives, coquettes have invariably proved detestable ones.
From Her Royal Highness Woman by Max O'Rell
Pamphlets furnish beaus with their airs, coquettes with their charms.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
