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co·quette

(kō-kĕt′)

A woman who regularly makes romantic or sexual overtures; a flirt.

[French, feminine of coquet, flirtatious man; see coquet.]

co·quet′tish adj.

co·quet′tish·ly adv.

co·quet′tish·ness n.

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coquette

(kəʊˈkɛt; kɒˈkɛt)

1. a woman who flirts

2. (Animals) any hummingbird of the genus Lophornis, esp the crested Brazilian species L. magnifica

[C17: from French, feminine of coquet]

coˈquettish adj

coˈquettishly adv

coˈquettishness n

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

co•quette

(koʊˈkɛt)

n.

a woman who flirts insincerely with men to win their admiration and attention.

[1605–15; < French, feminine of coquet]

co•quet′tish, adj.

co•quet′tish•ly, adv.

co•quet′tish•ness, n.

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Noun	1.	coquette - a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men flirt, minx, vamp, vamper, tease adult female, woman - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted"
Verb	1.	coquette - talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women" flirt, chat up, coquet, mash, philander, romance, dally, butterfly talk, speak - exchange thoughts; talk with; "We often talk business"; "Actions talk louder than words" wanton - engage in amorous play vamp - act seductively with (someone)

coquette

noun

A woman who is given to flirting:

flirt.

Informal: vamp.

Translations

кокет кокетка

coquette

[kəˈket] N → coqueta f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

coquette

[kɒˈkɛt kəʊˈkɛt] n (= flirt) → coquette f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

coquette

n → kokettes Mädchen, kokette Frau

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

coquette

[kəʊˈkɛt] n → civetta (fig)

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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Vernon on being about to receive into your family the most accomplished coquette in England.

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You seem almost like a coquette, upon my life you do--a coquette of the first urban water!

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"But, to tell you the truth, she is also a franche coquette. I am sorry to say," he added in a moment, shaking his head with a world of harmless bitterness, "that she comes honestly by it.

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She is a vain coquette, and her tricks have not answered.

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Herself a consummate coquette, she could not have maneuvered better on meeting a man she wished to attract.

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The words might have been those of a coquette, but the full, bright glance Maggie turned on Philip was not that of a coquette.

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I have heard ladies call her coquette, not understanding that she shone softly upon all who entered the lists because, with the rarest intuition, she foresaw that they must go away broken men and already sympathised with their dear wounds.

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Oh how much, and how keenly, the little coquette of five years ago, felt now!

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She was withal a little of a coquette, as might be perceived even in her dress, which was a mixture of ancient and modern fashions, as most suited to set of her charms.

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They are at another pole from the so-called dangerous women who are merely coquettes. A coquette has got to work for her success.

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I rather think his appearance there was distasteful to Catherine; she was not artful, never played the coquette, and had evidently an objection to her two friends meeting at all; for when Heathcliff expressed contempt of Linton in his presence, she could not half coincide, as she did in his absence; and when Linton evinced disgust and antipathy to Heathcliff, she dared not treat his sentiments with indifference, as if depreciation of her playmate were of scarcely any consequence to her.

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The look produced its effect -- the two faces brightened; but immediately, as if the royal coquette thought she had done too much for simple mortals, she made a movement, turned her back on both her adorers, and appeared plunged in a reverie in which it was evident they had no part.