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coquette
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Poverty and coquetry are two fatal counsellors; one scolds and the other flatters, and the beautiful daughters of the people have both of them whispering in their ear, each on its own side.†
Chpt 1.3

coquetry = casual playfulness that arouses sexual interest
Zephine and Dahlia, whom chance had made beautiful in such a way that they set each off when they were together, and completed each other, never left each other, more from an instinct of coquetry than from friendship, and clinging to each other, they assumed English poses; the first keepsakes had just made their appearance, melancholy was dawning for women, as later on, Byronism dawned for men; and the hair of the tender sex began to droop dolefully.†
Chpt 1.3
The three others, less timid, as we have already said, wore low-necked dresses without disguise, which in summer, beneath flower-adorned hats, are very graceful and enticing; but by the side of these audacious outfits, blond Fantine's canezou, with its transparencies, its indiscretion, and its reticence, concealing and displaying at one and the same time, seemed an alluring godsend of decency, and the famous Court of Love, presided over by the Vicomtesse de Cette, with the sea-green eyes, would, perhaps, have awarded the prize for coquetry to this canezou, in the contest for the prize of modesty.†
Chpt 1.3
She could have entered into competition with the two other little ones, so far as the coquetry of her dress was concerned; she wore a cap of fine linen, ribbons on her bodice, and Valenciennes lace on her cap.†
Chpt 1.4
Nevertheless, when she combed her beautiful hair in the morning with an old broken comb, and it flowed about her like floss silk, she experienced a moment of happy coquetry.†
Chpt 1.5
She had lost her shame; she lost her coquetry.†
Chpt 1.5
When I was happy, it was only necessary to glance into my closets, and it would have been evident that I was not a coquettish and untidy woman.†
Chpt 1.5 *

coquettish = casually playful in a way that arouses sexual interest of men
His coquetry consisted in drinking with the carters.†
Chpt 2.3

coquetry = casual playfulness that arouses sexual interest
They were warmly clad, but with so much maternal art that the thickness of the stuffs did not detract from the coquetry of arrangement.†
Chpt 2.3
It was two tiny children's shoes, coquettish in shape and unequal in size.†
Chpt 2.3

coquettish = casually playful in a way that arouses sexual interest of men
He had been a mousquetaire, and then, he was said to be very coquettish, that his handsome brown hair was very well dressed in a roll around his head, and that he had a broad girdle of magnificent moire, and that his black cassock was of the most elegant cut in the world.†
Chpt 2.6
He had singular freaks of tranquillity; he had himself shaved every day by a barber who had been mad and who detested him, being jealous of M. Gillenormand on account of his wife, a pretty and coquettish barberess.†
Chpt 3.2
All purities and all candors meet in that celestial and fatal gleam which, more than all the best-planned tender glances of coquettes, possesses the magic power of causing the sudden blossoming, in the depths of the soul, of that sombre flower, impregnated with perfume and with poison, which is called love.†
Chpt 3.6

coquettes = women who are casually playful in a way that arouses sexual interest of men
The pavilion, built of stone in the taste of Mansard, wainscoted and furnished in the Watteau style, rocaille on the inside, old-fashioned on the outside, walled in with a triple hedge of flowers, had something discreet, coquettish, and solemn about it, as befits a caprice of love and magistracy.†
Chpt 4.3

coquettish = casually playful in a way that arouses sexual interest of men
This coquettish garden, formerly decidedly compromised, had returned to virginity and modesty.†
Chpt 4.3
She recalled the remark of that passer-by: "Pretty, but badly dressed," the breath of an oracle which had passed beside her and had vanished, after depositing in her heart one of the two germs which are destined, later on, to fill the whole life of woman, coquetry.†
Chpt 4.3

coquetry = casual playfulness that arouses sexual interest
As extreme innocence borders on extreme coquetry, she smiled at him with all frankness.†
Chpt 4.3
She was a coquette to boot through her ignorance.†
Chpt 4.3

coquette = a woman who is casually playful in a way that arouses sexual interest of men
It is more coquettish.†
Chpt 5.5

coquettish = casually playful in a way that arouses sexual interest of men
They were spruce, shining, waved, lustrous, fluttering, dainty, coquettish, which did not at all prevent their wearing swords by their sides.†
Chpt 5.5
Which of you has seen the planet Venus, the coquette of the abyss, the Celimene of the ocean, rise in the infinite, calming all here below?†
Chpt 5.6

coquette = a woman who is casually playful in a way that arouses sexual interest of men

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(1) (coquette)
a woman who is casually playful in a way that arouses sexual interest of men but does not imply serious flirtation
Coquette is a French word that is similar to the word flirt. There are two primary differences:
1. Coquette only refers to a woman whereas flirt can refer to either sex.
2. 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.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Much more rarely, coquette can refer to a species of bird or to a city name.

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