coquette

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Berlioz heard just before returning to Paris that the coquette was about to marry, a conclusion one would fancy which would have rejoiced his mind.

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  1. noun A woman who makes teasing sexual or romantic overtures; a flirt.

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  1. French, feminine of coquet, flirtatious man; see coquet.

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  1. Formerly also coquet (originally applied to men as well as to women); from French coquette, a coquette, a flirt, a pert or flippant woman, properly fem, of coquet, a beau, as adjective coquettish, flirting, literally a little cock: see cocket, which is the same word in earlier form.
 

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/kəˈkɛt/
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