All 5 Uses of
coquette
in
The Mill on the Floss
- The words might have been those of a coquette, but the full, bright glance Maggie turned on Philip was not that of a coquette.†
Chpt 5.1 *
- The words might have been those of a coquette, but the full, bright glance Maggie turned on Philip was not that of a coquette.†
Chpt 5.1
- But if Maggie had been the queen of coquettes she could hardly have invented a means of giving greater piquancy to her beauty in Stephen's eyes; I am not sure that the quiet admission of plain sewing and poverty would have done alone, but assisted by the beauty, they made Maggie more unlike other women even than she had seemed at first.†
Chpt 6.2
- And Maggie was so entirely without those pretty airs of coquetry which have the traditional reputation of driving gentlemen to despair that she won some feminine pity for being so ineffective in spite of her beauty.†
Chpt 6.6
- Not that her enjoyment of music was of the kind that indicates a great specific talent; it was rather that her sensibility to the supreme excitement of music was only one form of that passionate sensibility which belonged to her whole nature, and made her faults and virtues all merge in each other; made her affections sometimes an impatient demand, but also prevented her vanity from taking the form of mere feminine coquetry and device, and gave it the poetry of ambition.†
Chpt 6.6
Definition:
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(coquette) a woman who is casually playful in a way that arouses sexual interest of men but does not imply serious flirtationeditor's notes: Coquette is a French word that is similar to the word flirt. There are two primary differences:
- Coquette only refers to a woman whereas flirt can refer to either sex.
- To say someone is coquettish implies that she is just being playful and does not intend sexual relations with the man with whom she is interacting; whereas when a woman is described as flirting, the word does not indicate whether she is just being playful or she wants to instigate sexual relations.