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coquetry
/ˈkoʊkətɹi/
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What does coquetry mean?
noun
- Coquettish behaviour; actions designed to excite erotic attention, without intending to reciprocate such feelings (chiefly of women towards men); flirtatious teasing.
- An act constituting such behaviour; an affectation of amorous interest or enticement, especially of a woman directed towards a man.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkoʊkətɹi/
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She might as well have been a boy, so lacking was she in any touch of feminine coquetry toward him.
She now turned and looked upon him in full, the instincts of self-protection and coquetry mingling confusedly in her brain.
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The small marquise sometimes looked at him with an intensity too marked not to be innocent, for coquetry is more finely shaded.
They were warmly clad, but with so much maternal art that the thickness of the stuffs did not detract from the coquetry of arrangement.
The ideal of his sex is always a pretty wife, and the vanity and coquetry that so often go with prettiness are erected into charms.