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Webster 1913 Edition
Coquette
Co-quette′
,Noun.
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.
(Zool.)
A tropical humming bird of the genus
Lophornis
, with very elegant neck plumes. Several species are known. See Illustration under Spangle
, Verb.
T.
Webster 1828 Edition
Coquette
COQUET
, COQUETTE,Noun.
The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, and sport and flutter in the fields of air.
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.
Definition 2024
coquette
coquette
English
Noun
coquette (plural coquettes)
Translations
flirtatious woman
Related terms
Verb
coquette (third-person singular simple present coquettes, present participle coquetting, simple past and past participle coquetted)
- Alternative form of coquet
- 1875, Herbert Eastwick Compton, Semi-tropical trifles
- Nobber has no small opinion of himself: he considers himself the Adonis of the Pondaati eleven, and he contemplates society as though it were Venus, and it was his mission to posturize before it, and coquette and toy with it.
- 1875, Herbert Eastwick Compton, Semi-tropical trifles