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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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... of a number of goddesses of his youth. He mentions, in particular, one of the name of Lydia, who kept him often from "his dear mother and household," and who is probably represented by the princess of the same name in the Orlando, punished in the smoke of Tartarus for being a jilt and coquette.[6] His friend Bembo, afterwards the celebrated cardinal, recommended him to be blind to such little immaterial points as ladies' infidelities. But he is shocked at the advice. He was far more of Othello's opinion than Congreve's in such matters; and declared, that he would not have shared his ...

— Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Vol. 2 • Leigh Hunt

... and a most accomplished coquette, the Marquise was recovering from a serious love-affair, when she summoned Balzac to afford her amusement and distraction. Delicate and fragile, her face was rather too long for perfect beauty, but there was something spiritual and ...

— Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings • Mary F. Sandars

... world? She was kind and insincere; she was gentle and she was cruel; she was generous and ungenerous; she was true as steel, and she was false as Judas—what would you?—she was a woman of the world, with several sweet natural impulses, and all a coquette's diplomacies. ...

— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida • Ouida

... to be remarked in the course of the tale, though, it is true, it grows confused towards the end, and touches the melodramatic in the same way as Nash's novel. Thus the above conversation is interrupted by the entrance of the coquette Emilia, long before loved by Peregrine who had vainly asked for her hand. "Peregrine would have answered, but a pluck by the sleeve obliged him to turn from Selinda to entertain a lady mask'd who had given him the nudg. He presently ...

— The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare • J. J. Jusserand

... to convince a woman, if she had overheard this speech, that Miss Sherwood's humility was not the calculated affectation of a coquette. Sometimes a man's unsuspicion is wiser, and Harkless knew that she was not flirting with him. In addition, he was not a fatuous man; he did not extend the implication of her words nearly so far as she ...

— The Gentleman From Indiana • Booth Tarkington

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