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Meanings of coquette in English

Catalan
flirtar

Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions.

      flirtar
      Portuguese
      interesseira
      Catalan
      coqueta
      Spanish
      mujer fatal

      A seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men.

          interesseira
          Synonyms
          Examples for "romance"
          Examples for "romance"
          1
          Just as Greece's odyssey enchanted Europe, surely hurling requires a new romance.
          The Irish Times
          2
          Natural philosophy, like war and romance, is best done by young men.
          Quicksilver
          3
          As an aside; there's a possible moment of confusion in romance too!
          The South African
          4
          This caution, however, could benefit the romance zone in an interesting way!
          The South African
          5
          I'm not so sure about the 'romance' part, either, to be honest.
          The distant hours
          1
          But none take it as far as the Central American glasswing butterfly.
          BBC
          2
          I mean, really: who breaks a butterfly on a Panamanian shell company?
          The Guardian
          3
          The abdomen under the wings of the butterfly still represents the larva.
          Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
          4
          The chaos butterfly was a great enough prize to fuel anyone's ambitions.
          Hex and the city
          5
          The chink in his armour could be the 100m butterfly final today.
          The Guardian
          1
          Boil the roe fifteen minutes in salted water; then drain and mash.
          Miss Parloa's New Cook Book
          2
          The first reports on this superhero mash-up did indeed emerge in August.
          The Irish Times
          3
          Nonetheless, the motivation and momentum for media mash-ups will persist, he said.
          Reuters
          4
          Puree potatoes through a moule food mill, potatoe ricer or simply mash.
          Radio NZ
          5
          I thank you for your consideration, but please no more mash notes.
          Larry's kidney: being the true story of how I found myself in ch...
          1
          Criminals are becoming obstinate; they dally forever, clogging the processes of justice.
          For Love Of Evil
          2
          I thank you for that little confidence; but I must not dally.
          The Phantom Ship
          3
          To avoid pursuing that thought any further, I dally over the newspaper.
          The Elephant Vanishes
          4
          Sire and sons returned from the cemetery invigorated for their dally labours.
          Auld Licht Idylls
          5
          Maitland did not dally long in the Levant after getting Barton's letter.
          The Mark of Cain
          1
          She is going there to copy it, not to philander with Alec.
          A Son of the Immortals
          2
          So it won't matter if he does want to philander, George.
          Rainbow Valley
          3
          There is nothing particularly glamorous about the way Philander plays his cricket.
          The South African
          4
          Wanderers will play host to Vernon Philander's final Test for South Africa.
          The South African
          5
          Professor Porter and Mr. Philander were deeply interested in examining the skeletons.
          Tarzan of the Apes
          1
          Even to the end she would deck herself and coquet to her glass.
          At a Winter's Fire
          2
          Without any need of self-restraint, no wish to coquet ever entered her head.
          War and Peace
          3
          What think you, Mr Walpole, of our two coquet Irish beauties?
          "The Ladies": A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty
          4
          We have no such character here as a coquet, but alas!
          Selected English Letters (XV-XIX Centuries)
          5
          What you want is a chance to coquet with him.
          Out of the Primitive
          1
          In rallying, people can have a chat up until we set off.
          The Guardian
          2
          Then, it is said, he tried to chat up GlaxoSmithKline but got nowhere.
          The Guardian
          3
          Let Appleby chat up the witness, predictable waste of time that would be.
          While galileo preys
          4
          His first few attempts to chat up women were met with blunt rejection.
          Mistress of the game
          5
          Oh, yeah, there's the guy you want to chat up about Nikolaev history.
          Exit strategy
          Usage of coquette in English
          1
          Eve is somewhat of a coquette even in the state of innocence.
          The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 / With a Life of the...
          2
          Angélique could coquette in half-meanings with any lady of honor at Court.
          The Golden Dog
          3
          She might as well have played the coquette in speech as writing.
          The Maid of Maiden Lane
          4
          Claudine was a coquette; but she had a great many other vices.
          The Lerouge Case
          5
          The torments of jealousy the cruel coquette made me endure were horrible.
          Barry Lyndon
          6
          The ache and pain of honest hearts is incense to a coquette.
          The Coquette's Victim / Everyday Life Library No. 1
          7
          I must say she looked to me like a regular little coquette.
          South Wind
          8
          The little coquette from instinct was changed into a coquette from knowledge.
          Frederick the Great and His Family: A Historical Novel
          9
          You men consider a coquette the best thing a woman can be.
          The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
          10
          There should be a little filigree about a woman-something of the coquette.
          Middlemarch
          11
          There would have been one lawyer the less, and a coquette extinguished.
          Taken Alive
          12
          You are as cruel with me as a beautiful and ravishing coquette.
          Berlin and Sans-Souci; Or, Frederick the Great and His Friends
          13
          She was a different person, a coquette, what had gotten into her?
          Who killed palomino molero?
          14
          A woman is a coquette so long as she knows not love.
          The Magic Skin
          15
          For this was the most dangerous of the world's creatures- aroyalcoquette.
          In Kedar's Tents
          16
          This Alzou is no more to be depended upon than a coquette.
          Wanderings by Southern Waters, Eastern Aquitaine
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          Translations for coquette
          Portuguese
          interesseira
          Coquette through the time
          Coquette across language varieties
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