coquette

Borrowed from French coquette.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɒˈkɛt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /koʊˈkɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

coquette (plural coquettes)

1. A woman who flirts or plays with men's affections.

coquette (third-person singular simple present coquettes, present participle coquetting, simple past and past participle coquetted)

1. Alternative form of coquet
   • 1875, Herbert Eastwick Compton, Semi-tropical trifles

     Nobber has no small opinion of himself: he considers himself the Adonis of the Pondaati eleven, and he contemplates society as though it were Venus, and it was his mission to posturize before it, and coquette and toy with it.

From coquet.

• IPA^(key): /kɔkɛt/

coquette

1. feminine singular of coquet

coquette f (plural coquettes)

1. flirt, tease

   Elle est une vraie coquette. She's such a flirt.

• “coquette” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).