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
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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
From Joan’s sincere coquetry at the Avon lunch, to Peggy’s surveillance techniques and expert game-playing, Joan and Peggy leaned over so hard they threatened to overturn the whole damn office.
From Time ● Jun. 3, 2013
She is not at all prim and demure; on the contrary, she is genially expressive, the kind of woman who being devoid of coquetry behaves as she feels.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2012
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
In that ruin of a house, she went about her coquetry, applying her dyes, her pomander and pouncet-box.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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
All the little coquetries and vanities of women appeared to shrivel in the white blaze of her sincerity.
From The Builders by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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
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