Chez georges is the gastronomic equivalent of the little black dress unfailingly correct, politely coquettish, and impeccably Parisian.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Hungry for Paris'

Instead they will adjust their pose as required, shifting from full frontal to coquettish side-on 'you looking at me' stance.

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Our house sat at the end of Gerard Avenue: coquettish and tattered, on tippy toes, it seemed, from the encroaching world.

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