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coquetry

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flirtatous behaviour

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I could not reflect without some amazement, and much sorrow, that the rudiments of lewdness, coquetry, censure, and scandal, should have place by instinct in womankind.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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whose behaviour at least could not be mistaken for the affectation and coquetry of an elegant female.

Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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"Oh, no, why so?" said Anna with a smile that betrayed that she knew there was something charming in her disquisitions upon the machine that had been noticed by Sviazhsky. This new trait of girlish coquettishness made an unpleasant impression on Dolly.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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