coquette
English
WOTD – 29 October 2015
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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
French
Etymology
From coquet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔkɛt/
Further reading
- “coquette” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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