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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

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

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

What is Cleopatra but the empress and type of all the coquettes that ever were—or are?

From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

I think she loved me," he mused; "surely I could not be mistaken in that; surely I have known too many coquettes in my life to be duped by one at the last!

From The Doctor's Wife by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)