(n.) A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men.
(n.) A tropical humming bird of the genus Lophornis, with very elegant neck plumes. Several species are known. See Illustration under Spangle, v. t.
Example Sentences:
(1) Diagnosis of HIV-2 was made if sera were positive by ELISA and Western blot (LAV Blot2, Diagnostics Pasteur, Marnes-La-Coquette, France) and negative by Wellcozyme I competitive ELISA to HIV-a (Wellcome Diagnostics, Dartford, UK).
(2) She is also the muse and favourite collaborator of composers from Gerald Barry to Pierre Boulez , from Henri Dutilleux to Michel van der Aa , and was magnetic as a hysterically imperious crockery-chucking Cecily Cardew in Barry's riotous The Importance of Being Earnest , and as the coloratura coquette she created for his The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant at English National Opera.
(3) A substrate, pyridine-2-azo-p-dimethylaniline cephalosporin (PADAC; Diagnostic Pasteur, Marnes-La-Coquette, France), for detection of penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae (PPNG) on isolated colonies grown on agar was compared with the nitrocefin reference test (Cefinase; Biomerieux, Marcy l'Etoile, France).
(4) Despite this non-specific lust, he does have a girlfriend of sorts: the grotesque Margaret, whose "tinkle of tiny silver bells" laugh will freeze the heart of any would-be coquette.
(5) We evaluated the API quadFerm+ [( API], Analytab Products, Inc., Plainview, N.Y.), NEISSERIA [( Pasteur], Diagnostics Pasteur, Marnes-la-Coquette, France), and Neisseria Identification Discs [( Oxoid], Oxoid Ltd., Basingstoke, England) using the conventional method as a reference.
(6) BioArgos (Sanofi Diagnostics Pasteur, Marnes-la-Coquette, France) is a fully automated blood culture system that detects carbon dioxide production by infrared spectroscopy through a glass bottle.
(7) Two latex agglutination tests for the detection of Candida antigens, Pastorex Candida (Sanofi Diagnostics Pasteur, Marnes-la-Coquette, France) and Cand-Tec (Ramco Laboratories, Inc., Houston, Tex.
(8) We evaluated the performances of a newly commercialized agglutination test that uses a monoclonal antibody specific for cryptococcal capsular polysaccharide (Pastorex Cryptococcus; Sanofi-Diagnostics Pasteur, Marnes-la-Coquette, France) and compared them with those of tests that use polyclonal immune sera (Cryptococcal Antigen Latex Agglutination System, Meridian Diagnostics, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio; and Crypto-LA, International Biological Labs Inc., Cranbury, N.J.).
Coquettish
Definition:
(a.) Practicing or exhibiting coquetry; alluring; enticing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Washington has long been a fan of the petro-dollar and Obama is proving another fickle enthusiast, flirting with the industry one moment, even as he snaps at it the next – like the coquettish mistress of an oil tycoon.
(2) … Teenage girls posed coquettishly with the men in balaclavas.
(3) Miliband, he said, was a great advocate of judge-led inquiries but "whenever someone asks questions about the Labour party there is a coquettish reticence".
(4) "She was nice and funny, always smiling, always well dressed despite her small salary, and somewhat coquettish."
(5) The women are sexy, coquettish, liberated and euphoric, caught up in what seems at times to be a sexual game among themselves.
(6) Teenage girls posed coquettishly with the men in balaclavas.
(7) It opens as Aileen (Theron) meets Selby (Christina Ricci), a young, coquettish, rather callow lesbian.
(8) Please click here to watch the video Special to Galván, too, is the rapid, improvisatory quality of his choreography, shifting from staccato speed to resonating stillness in a single phrase and pushing movement through a kaleidoscope of dynamics: the bow-strung profile that releases into a sensual three-dimensional torque (1.19); the muscular force that yields to near coquettish grace in his final pose, where his fingers splay like a fan.
(9) Michael Gove, the education secretary, said the Conservatives did not want a dirty election campaign but claimed: "Whenever anyone asks questions about the Labour party, Ed Miliband has a sort of coquettish reticence," referring to Miliband's refusal to answer questions on Labour's approach to the Co-op and allegations of vote-rigging by the Unite union in Falkirk.
(10) Jones is dressed in a black flying suit and airman’s hat, and there are no signs of diva behaviour, unless you count the occasional coquettish eye-slide or languorous drawl.
(11) Immediately warm and welcoming, she is disarmingly coquettish.
(12) I don't," says Dominic Cooper, dipping a biscuit coquettishly into his cappuccino froth, "take roles where I keep my clothes on."
(13) People like flirtatiousness because it conveys some possibility, it's not just a coquettish, Renaissance thing that you do, for politeness, like holding open a door.
(14) Brady used her position as the league's only female chief executive to her advantage, according to a source who saw her operate at the time: "She can be very charming with blokes of a certain age and, though I hesitate to say it, vaguely coquettish."
(15) With Kenneth Williams in the Feydeau farce Signed and Sealed, she did cause one critic to say that her coquettish flouncing as an eager bride was not as funny as Mount the awesome matriarch; but her first appearance at the National Theatre, in Goldini's Il Campiello, was praised.