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  • In London nothing interested her but the theatres and the shops; and she found the theatres less exciting than the Paris cafes chantants where, under the blossoming horse-chestnuts of the Champs Elysees, she had had the novel experience of looking down from the restaurant terrace on an audience of "cocottes," and having her husband interpret to her as much of the songs as he thought suitable for bridal ears.

    The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton 1899

  • And now tell me frankly: Do you think any man in the world such a fool as to contemplate marriage because a frivolous young thing whose acquaintance he made at a supper given to 'cocottes' accompanies him, in the middle of the night, to his bachelor quarters?

    The Indian Lily and Other Stories Hermann Sudermann 1892

  • Austrian noblemen favored the cafes on the Graben and the Ring, the cafe of the National Hotel was the favorite rendezvous of pleasure seekers (actors, actresses, journalists and cocottes), and the Cafe Daum was renowned for its famous politicians, military aristocrats, statesmen and courtiers.

    The Viennese Cafe | Edwardian Promenade 2008

  • He also used the occasion to go to plays at the theater, attend parties given by the cocottes the exuberant French, Spanish, and mixed-race courtesans who dominated nightlife and to rub elbows with explorers and scientists who stopped by the island on their way toward other more interesting places.

    'Island Beneath the Sea' 2010

  • Dangling legs aside, these cocottes of Gwen's didn't exactly resemble "les femmes de moeurs légères" or ladies of light morals.

    cocotte - French Word-A-Day 2006

  • Dangling legs aside, these cocottes of Gwen's didn't exactly resemble "les femmes de moeurs légères" or ladies of light morals.

    French Word-A-Day: 2006

  • Dangling legs aside, these cocottes of Gwen's didn't exactly resemble "les femmes de moeurs légères" or ladies of light morals.

    French Word-A-Day: 2006

  • La boucherie/butcher's: a place cocottes, French or otherwise, ought to steer clear of.

    French Word-A-Day: 2006

  • La boucherie/butcher's: a place cocottes, French or otherwise, ought to steer clear of.

    cocotte - French Word-A-Day 2006

  • La boucherie/butcher's: a place cocottes, French or otherwise, ought to steer clear of.

    French Word-A-Day: 2006

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