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How to pronounce coquette in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms butterfly, chat up, coquet, dally, flirt, mash, philander, romance
Type of speak, talk
Has types vamp, wanton
Type Words
Synonyms flirt, minx, prickteaser, tease, vamp, vamper
Type of adult female, woman

Examples of coquette

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When she appears, though, the coquette Musetta doesn't live up to his invectives.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Arquette, in great shape these days, radiates the strain of a desperate coquette.
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Next to him, Chaplin is a Victorian coquette, Lloyd a glad-handing politician.
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Unlike Barbara, Millamant is a complete coquette, full of feminine witchcraft.
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However, Alison manipulated us both like the well-practised coquette she was.
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Wilkes is a dramatic coquette, teasing and taunting with every jealous step.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Coquette has a lively bar backed by a patined mirror to go with its French bistro theme.
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Greer pivots between coquette and weepy waterworks so fast it's like watching a magic trick.
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On another occasion flirt as a verb is substituted for coquette.
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More examples
  • A seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men
  • Chat up: talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women"
  • Coquette is a 1929 sound film which tells the story of a flirtatious young woman whose father warns off her honorable boyfriend, only to cause tragedy. It stars silent film star Mary Pickford in her first talkie, Johnny Mack Brown in one of his earliest roles, John St. ...
  • The Coquette or, The History of Eliza Wharton is an epistolary novel by Hannah Webster Foster. It was published anonymously in 1797, and did not appear under the author's real name until 1866, 26 years after Webster's death. ...
  • A woman who flirts or plays with men's affections
  • A girl or woman who merely from vanity tries to get men's attention and admiration.
  • Starred Pickford as Norma Besant, a vivacious Southern belle who turns her attention toward Michael, a young man of questionable reputation. Her father's stern opposition, of course, only increases this attraction. ...
  • A flirtatious girl; a tease