verb
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to behave flirtatiously
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to dally or trifle
Etymology
Origin of coquet
1685–95; < French; literally, cockerel, equivalent to coq cock + -et -et
Example Sentences
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A: I'm afraid I was a bit of a coquet in my youth, but now that I'm a grandmother with an 18-year-old granddaughter, I'm simplifying what I wear.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2010
You will say, I am a coquet even in friendship; and I am not quite sure you are not in the right.
From The History of Emily Montague by Frances Brooke
Her proud obstinacy was not capable of that; she was not one of those sympathetic, dependent women who like to make little blunders so as to be able to coquet with their charming penitence.
From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Ossip Schubin
“Peter ywotisk, Peter kekoosh, moyout win coquet talenque.”
From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Gordon Stables
In the last century there lived a man who, in his young days, was a desperate coquet.
From Indian Story and Song from North America by Alice C. (Alice Cunningham) Fletcher
Madame coquetted with him in the most captivating and naive manner, with eyes, gestures, and a profusion of compliments, till the Colonel’s old head felt thirty years younger on his padded shoulders.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
She spread out her fan in the highest good-humour and coquetted behind it.
From The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century by Georgette Heyer
If Eloise d'Anville hadn't coquetted with young Creil I shouldn't be Commissioner here to-day, settling my account with Louis.
From One-Act Plays By Modern Authors by Various
The dance commenced with a slow gliding step, the dancers holding the ropes with one hand, while with the other the ladies coquetted their mantillas.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
It was evident that Terence had coquetted with them merely to study their plans.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
In short he had given way to the belief that she had been coquetting with him.
From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid
They fancied that M. Thiers was coquetting with the émeute, that the petit bourgeois, as he hypocritically called himself, wanted to cozen the monarchists, and, using Paris as his lever, overthrow them.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
His associate officers loitered through the listless days, coquetting with the pretty wife of the barber, smoking cigars in the shop, and listening to the petty gossip of the place.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
But Heine is to our view always the same, always the representative of humor with "a laughing tear" in his escutcheon, always the poetic anomaly, coquetting with his pain and scoffing it away.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
Smarting under these injuries, Bourbon, who for some time had been coquetting with the enemies of France, renewed his negotiations with the emperor and Henry VIII. of England.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
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