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Definition of Coquetry
1. Noun. Playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest.
Generic synonyms: Caper, Frolic, Gambol, Play, Romp
Derivative terms: Coquet, Dally, Dally, Flirt, Flirtatious, Flirt, Flirt, Flirt, Toy
Definition of Coquetry
1. n. Attempts to attract admiration, notice, or love, for the mere gratification of vanity; trifling in love.
Definition of Coquetry
1. Noun. An affectation of amorous tenderness, especially of a woman directed towards a man. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Coquetry
1. flirtatious behavior [n -TRIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coquetry
Literary usage of Coquetry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Romantic Love and Personal Beauty: Their Development, Causal Relations by Henry Theophilus Finck (1887)
"but there is no excuse whatever for "Ik Marvel's" saying that "coquetry whets
the appetite; flirtation depraves it coquetry is the thorn that guards the ..."
2. Life Among the Apaches by John C. Cremony (1868)
"coquetry.—Horses as Money.—The Bower of Love.—Affected Bash- fulness. ... The art
of coquetry is practiced among them with quite as much zest as among the ..."
3. History of the United Netherlands, from the Death of William the Silent to by John Lothrop Motley (1900)
"CHAPTER VI Policy of England—Diplomatic coquetry—Dutch envoys in England—Conference
of Ortel and Walsingham—Interview with Leicester—Private audience of the ..."
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