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noun

Coquette n.

A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; formerly sometimes applied also to men.

(Zool.) A tropical humming bird of the genus Lophornis, with very elegant neck plumes. Several species are known.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Coquette" Quotes from Famous Books

... her deformity, intimidated by the future, she became in the purity of her soul a coquette. She dissimulated her feelings, became exacting, and hid from her lover the passion of joy which was consuming her; indeed, she only revealed her true self after marriage had shown her the steadfast nobility of her husband's character, when she could no longer ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol. I • Various

... twisted it back to the sticking-point again, and he was all resolve once more. The experience of ages has declared that there is no better spur for the halting paces of a laggard lover than that which is supplied by jealousy. The simplest coquette that ever tortured hearts in a hay-field is aware of the fact, and needs no appeal to the experience of ...

— Aunt Rachel • David Christie Murray

... was the pioneer, champion, incomparable coquette of the ancient world, and as such ...

— Fair to Look Upon • Mary Belle Freeley

... is your cold coquette, who can't say "No," And won't say "Yes," and keeps you on and off-ing On a lee-shore, till it begins to blow— Then sees your heart wrecked, with an inward scoffing. This works a world of sentimental woe,[lq] And sends new Werters yearly to their coffin; But yet is merely innocent flirtation, ...

— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron

... pair! "What, Catherine?" cried the old man, "is it true that you have been a coquette? How! have I been only the foster-father of thy little poet?" "No! No!" replied the enraged mother; "he is all thine own! Console thyself, poor John; thou alone hast been my mate. And who is this 'Pollo, the humbug who has deceived thee so? Yes, I am lame, but when I was washing my linen, if any ...

— Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist • Samuel Smiles

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