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Coquette [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. COQUET, COQUETTE noun A vain, airy, trifling girl, who endeavors to attract admiration and advances in love, from a desire to gratify vanity, and then rejects her lover; a jilt.

2. The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, and sport and flutter in the fields of air.

3. Note. In French, coquet is masculine and COQUETTE feminine; but as our language has no such termination for gender, it may be better to write coquet for both sexes, and for distinction prefix male to the word when applied to a man.

Coquette [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To attempt to attract notice, admiration or love, from vanity; to entertain with compliments and amorous tattle; to treat with an appearance of amorous tenderness.

2. You are coquetting a maid of honor.

3. To trifle in love; to act the lover from vanity; to endeavor to gain admirers.

Coquette [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men.

2. A tropical humming bird of the genus Lophornis, with very elegant neck plumes. Several species are known. See Illustration under Spangle, v. t.

Coquetted [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Coquet