coquetry
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
coquetry
- Coquettish behaviour; actions designed to excite erotic attention, without intending to reciprocate such feelings (chiefly of women towards men); flirtatious teasing.
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 73:
- With a lover […] her sensibility will naturally lead her to endeavour to excite emotion, not to gratify her vanity, but her heart. This I do not allow to be coquetry, it is the artless impulse of nature […].
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 73:
- (countable) An act constituting such behaviour; an affectation of amorous interest or enticement, especially of a woman directed towards a man.
- French: coquetterie, coquetisme
- German: Koketterie
- Russian: коке́тство
- Spanish: coquetería
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