Synonyms for coquette


Grammar : Noun
Spell : koh-ket
Phonetic Transcription : koʊˈkɛt


Définition of coquette

Origin :
  • 1660s, from French fem. of coquet (male) "flirt" (see coquet).
  • noun flirt
Example sentences :
  • "La Coquetta," "The Coquette," was the title of a cigar shop.
  • Extract from : « Aztec Land » by Maturin M. Ballou
  • Yet some of the sheeny-winged gallants called her a coquette.
  • Extract from : « Japanese Fairy World » by William Elliot Griffis
  • Coquette, if you will, with fifty, but give your affections to one.
  • Extract from : « That Boy Of Norcott's » by Charles James Lever
  • I 'd be sorry, very sorry, to doubt it; but she never said I was a coquette?
  • Extract from : « The Bramleighs Of Bishop's Folly » by Charles James Lever
  • She is a coquette, too, about that foot and ankle,—I rather like a woman to be so.
  • Extract from : « Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) » by Charles Lever
  • People called her a coquette––the most dangerous of coquettes, because she was not a cold one.
  • Extract from : « The Bondwoman » by Marah Ellis Ryan
  • I have many things to say to you yet before—— For one, I am not a coquette?
  • Extract from : « Molly Bawn » by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
  • Think of all you said to me yesterday and this morning; and now, now you called me a coquette!
  • Extract from : « Molly Bawn » by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
  • She was a Frenchwoman, a beauty, and a little—a very little—of a coquette.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 » by Various
  • His mad joy did not allow him to see anything of the coquette in that confession.
  • Extract from : « Blow The Man Down » by Holman Day

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