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• COQUET (pronounced C6cket)
• COQUET (pronounced co-kette)

COQUET (pronounced co-kette)  , to simulate the arts of love-making, generally from motives of See also:

• PERSONAL

personal vanity, to flirt; in a figurative sense, to. trifle or dilly-dally with anything . The word is derived from the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French eoqueter, which originally means, "to strut about like a See also:

• COCK, EDWARD (1805-1892)

cock-See also:

• BIRD

bird," i.e. when it desires to attract the hens . The French substantive See also:

• COQUET (pronounced C6cket)
• COQUET (pronounced co-kette)

coquet, in the sense of "beau" or " See also:

• LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

lady-killer," was formerly commonly used in See also:

• ENGLISH

English; but the feminine See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form, coquette, now practically alone survives, in the sense of a woman who gratifies, her vanity by using her See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers of attraction in a frivolous or inconstant See also:

• FASHION (adapted from Fr. facon, agon, Lat. factio, making, facere, to do or make)

fashion . Hence "to coquet," the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original and more correct form, has come frequently to be written "to coquette." Coquetry (Fr. coquetterie), primarily the See also:

• ART

art of the coquette, is used figuratively of any dilly-dallying or "coquetting" and, by transference of See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea, of any superficial qualities of attraction in persons or things . " Coquet " is still also occasionally used adjectivally, but the more usual form is " coquettish "; e.g. we speak of a "coquettish manner;" or a "coquettish See also:

• HAT

hat." The crested humming-birds of the genus Lophornis are known as coquettes (Fr. coquets) .