coquetry
noun
the behavior or arts of a coquette; flirtation.
coquetries
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pluralof coquetry.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
But, such traditional little coquetries aside, the fight was really on; punches were given & taken, toe to toe.
From Time Magazine Archive
At such a crisis she is shrewd enough not to resort to vulgar coquetries, feeling that they are no longer in season.
From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by J. J. Jusserand
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
