coquetry
Americannoun
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the behavior or arts of a coquette; flirtation.
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dalliance; trifling.
noun
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Noun Inflected Forms
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
Yet she allows Olga a shyly experimental coquetry, a blind dazzle in her eyes that also speaks touchingly of youth and vulnerability.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 21, 2013
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 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
Mrs. Bogle who was many times a grandmother, but had a blushing air of coquetry about her that cloaked her sunken cheeks.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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 Jusserand, J. J.
But she never thought of making a picture of herself, she left such small coquetries to girls who had nothing better to do or to think of.
From Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life by Drinkwater, Jennie M.
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