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Coquetry

//ˈkɒkɪtɹi// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Coquettish behaviour; actions designed to excite erotic attention, without intending to reciprocate such feelings (chiefly of women towards men); flirtatious teasing. countable, uncountable

    "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 […]"

  2. 2
    playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest wordnet
  3. 3
    An act constituting such behaviour; an affectation of amorous interest or enticement, especially of a woman directed towards a man. countable

    "The little coquetries, which are as natural to a gay young girl as her laughter, were all in full play, and had she gone no further no harm would have been done."

Etymology

From French coquetterie.

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