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coquet

WordNet
Woman with a 'chapeau coquet' on her head. Colored sleeves under a white dress. Fan in hand. She sits on an antique-style mahogany armchair. The print is part of the fashion magazine Journal des Dames et des Modes, published by Sellèque, Paris, 1797-1839.
Woman with a 'chapeau coquet' on her head. Colored sleeves under a white dress. Fan in hand. She sits on an antique-style mahogany armchair. The print is part of the fashion magazine Journal des Dames et des Modes, published by Sellèque, Paris, 1797-1839.
  1. (v) coquet
    talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries","My husband never flirts with other women"
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Coquet
    To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint. "You are coquetting a maid of honor."
  2. Coquet
    To trifle in love; to stimulate affection or interest; to play the coquette; to deal playfully instead of seriously; to play (with); as, we have coquetted with political crime.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. coquet
    See cocket and coquette.
  2. coquet
    To attempt, out of vanity, to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; entertain with compliments and amorous flattery; treat with an appearance of amorous tenderness.
  3. coquet
    To trifle in love; act the lover from vanity; endeavor to gain admirers.
  4. coquet
    Hence To trifle, in general; act without seriousness or decision.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (v.i) Coquet
    ko-ket′ to excite admiration or love
  2. (v.t) Coquet
    to trifle with in love: to flirt with: to dally with:—pr.p. coquet′ting; pa.p. coquet′ted
Quotations
Charlotte Saunders Cushman
Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.
Charlotte Saunders Cushman
Usage in the news

ARQUES, France--Arc International has sold Salviati, the Italian art glass brand, to JL Coquet-Jaune de Chrome, a small French Limoges company. hfnmag.com

Usage in scientific papers

Antonelli and Kohatsu-Higa in and also Coquet, Mackeviˇcius and M´emin in and proposed approximation schemes that use discretization of filtrations and convergence of filtrations.
Stability of solutions of BSDEs with random terminal time

M.∧τ , according to Remark 1.2 in Coquet, M´emin and S lomi´nski .
Stability of solutions of BSDEs with random terminal time

The notions of convergence of filtrations and of σ-fields have been firstly defined in Hoover and then in a slightly different way in Coquet, M´emin and S lominski .
Stability of solutions of BSDEs with random terminal time

Briand, Ph., Coquet, F., Hu, Y., M´emin J. and Peng, S. (2000) A converse comparison theorem for BSDEs and related properties of gexpectations, Electron.
G-Brownian Motion and Dynamic Risk Measure under Volatility Uncertainty

Coquet, F., Hu, Y., M´emin, J. and Peng, S. (2001) A general converse comparison theorem for Backward stochastic differential equations, C.R.
G-Brownian Motion and Dynamic Risk Measure under Volatility Uncertainty

Usage in literature

He was masked, and had with him only Coquet, the master of the household. "In Kings' Byways" by Stanley J. Weyman

I am not quite the heartless coquet I seem. "Flora Lyndsay" by Susan Moodie

And half-a-dozen damson-trees overshadowed the back of the cottage, their branches coquetting with the roof when the wind blew. "The Toilers of the Field" by Richard Jefferies

Parrots abound in carnival hues, and buff-colored doves, with soft white rings of feathers about their necks, coquet lovingly together. "Foot-prints of Travel" by Maturin M. Ballou

Lion trotted into the pasture, trotted straight up to the right horse, coaxed and coquetted with him for a minute, and then trotted back. "The Young Surveyor;" by J. T. Trowbridge

She continues to sing, meanwhile coquetting with him. "Operas Every Child Should Know" by Mary Schell Hoke Bacon

This was no ordinary person coquetting with his pretty daughter. "Jennie Gerhardt" by Theodore Dreiser

There was no more coquetting with the saddle. "The Spanish Jade" by Maurice Hewlett

A sharp suspicion crossed the doctor's mind that she was coquetting with him. "Hetty's Strange History" by Helen Jackson

The little Coquet Island in the distance breaks the expanse of blue waters. "England, Picturesque and Descriptive" by Joel Cook

Usage in poetry
I've had a few diseases,
And trifled with despair,
Tried failure which displeases,
And coquetted with care.
Of worthless, vain, coquets beware,
And of the slawny trapes, take care,
Nor to the dow'r-proud flirt incline:
She'll prove a plague to thee and thine.
Nor let me pair his blue-eyed Dame
With Venus' or Minerva's name,
One warrior, one coquet;
No; Pallas and the Queen of Beauty
Shunn'd, or betray'd that nuptial duty,
Which she so high has set.
while he was so beastly with love for Charlotte Coquet
he skated up & down in front of her house
wishing he could, sir, die,
while being bullied & he dreamt he could fly—
during irregular verbs—them world-sought bodies
safe in the Arctic lay: