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They rejected the puritanism of old as well as the bourgeois coquetterie.
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The Queen of Prussia is really charming; she is full of coquetterie toward me.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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The Queen of Prussia is really charming; she is full of coquetterie toward me.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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'He received me,' writes the prince, 'in a dimly-lighted room, whose _clair obscure_ was arranged with some _coquetterie_; and truly the aspect of the beautiful old man, with his Jovelike countenance, was most stately ....
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston
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Still, pleasant as her recollections were, she often looked back self-reproachfully upon passages of her youth; and Sainte-Beuve, though he calls her coquetry "_une coquetterie angelique_," recognizes it as a blemish.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various
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The sketches showed in every detail, and with the greatest possible degree of _chic_ and _coquetterie_, the latest mode in widow's garb.
Juggernaut Alice Campbell
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Barrymore's when Miss Ethel is speaking very nicely, -- her smiles, and dimples, and provocative, inviting _coquetterie_!
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Mr. Clark was the spokesman, and acquitted himself with great dignity and moderation; Madame de Staël now and then came forth with a little coquetterie pour adoucir ce sauvage Jenkinson.
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A spirit of _coquetterie_ came over me for the first time in my life.
The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel Elinor Glyn 1903
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In Mrs Colclough there was no coquetterie, no trace of that more-than-half-suspicious challenge to a man that one feels always in the type to which her sister belonged.
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns Arnold Bennett 1899
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