Coquette vs Courtesan - What's the difference?
coquette | courtesan |
* 1875 , Herbert Eastwick Compton, Semi-tropical trifles
(archaic) A woman of a royal or noble court.
(dated) The mistress of a royal or noble.
A prostitute, especially one with high-status or wealthy clients.
As nouns the difference between coquette and courtesan
is that coquette is a woman who flirts or plays with men's affections while courtesan is a woman of a royal or noble court.As a verb coquette
is an alternative form of lang=en.coquette
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Nobber has no small opinion of himself: he considers himself the Adonis of the Pondaati eleven, and he contemplates society as though it were Venus, and it was his mission to posturize before it, and coquette and toy with it.