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coquettes

  • plural
    of coquette.
    coquette
    noun
    a woman who flirts lightheartedly with men to win their admiration and affection; flirt.

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When the Walshes went off to Europe to meet King Albert of the Belgians, she licked Baedekers to make her lips red and practiced walking like Parisian coquettes.

From Time Magazine Archive

If these coquettes shared a single trait, it was by no means beauty but an indomitable will to succeed and the ability to overcome natural handicaps.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unlike Chaplin, who was ever the champion of the innocent heroine, Laurel and Hardy usually ran afoul of gold-digging coquettes or nagging wives.

From Time Magazine Archive

But, different as they were in looks and perhaps in character, there was one trait in which they perfectly agreed, for they were remarkable coquettes!

From Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California by Brantz Mayer

It was the dog-in-the-manger feeling which possesses coquettes of both sexes.

From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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