coquetry

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Coquettish behaviour; actions designed to excite erotic attention, without intending to reciprocate such feelings (chiefly of women towards men); flirtatious teasing.
(RQ:Wollstonecraft Vindication Women) 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 (..)
An act constituting such behaviour; an affectation of amorous interest or enticement, especially of a woman directed towards a man.
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