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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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
He should know, since it is his right arm that wriggles Miss Piggy through her black-belt coquetries.
From Time Magazine Archive
Leeza was tired of her own coquetries, lonely, and poor; she wrote her foolish little apologizing, confessing letter with tears in her blue eyes—those blue eyes that sober, reticent Mark Deal could not forget.
From Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches by Constance Fenimore Woolson
People who do not love to disport in fashionable waters are apt to be severe upon those who spend their faculties upon the coquetries of bathing costume.
From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Donald G. Mitchell
