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coquette
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Definition:A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to grafity vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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she was not artful, never played the coquette, and had evidently an objection to her two friends meeting at all;
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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There should be a little filigree about a woman—something of the coquette. A man likes a sort of challenge.
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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“Sorry you didn’t wed a local girl?” I asked coquettishly.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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Bathsheba, sweet, lost coquette, pardon me! I've been blaming you, threatening you, behaving like a churl to you, when he's the greatest sinner. He stole your dear heart away with his unfathomable lies! [...]"Thomas Hardy. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
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She did not wish to go out into the world all rumpled, like the field poppies. It was only in the full radiance of her beauty that she wished to appear. Oh yes! She was a coquettish creature!
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The Little Prince, p.29 (Katherine Woods translation) (1943)
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She talked of other things instead—lightly, almost coquettishly.
Stephen King. The Stand (1990)
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