coquette
noun
a woman who flirts lightheartedly with men to win their admiration and affection; flirt.
coquettes
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pluralof coquette.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
In fact, the lovely Helen of this tavern-Troy was the dearest of coquettes, whose fence of tongue was as beautiful a game of thrust and parry as I ever saw played with Parisian foils.
From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Brantz Mayer
Why do not your coquettes strive for this approval?
From The Progressionists, and Angela. by Conrad von Bolanden
