That meal was followed by a period of torpor, then every one sought the beachthe high, the low; the rich, the poor; the dowdy and the well-dressed; the virgin in white and the cocotte in scarlet; the thin and the obese; the French, the Dutch, the Italianyea, and the angular English, for Weet-sur-Mer attracted a crowd as hybrid as its name!

She will end"he made the gesture of counting money into his hand"she will end as a cocotte."

You leave French, or the half-Latin Rumanian language, for a Slavic speech, and the Cyrillic, or Russian, alphabet; names ending in "sco" or "ano" (Ionesco, Filipesco, Bratiano) for names ending in "off" (Radoslavoff, Malinoff, Ghenadieff, Antinoff, and the like), and all the show and vivacity, the cafes and cocottes of Bucarest, for a clean little mountain capital as determined and serious as some new town out West.

And then to his horse: "Hue, cocotte!"

That I've gotten along as a woman of the demimonde rather than as an artistthat I'm a cocotte, using my voice and the stage for soliciting, as it were.

At all events she shone like a great cocotte among her competitors, though her real asset was a line of risqué stories, and a certain gift for low songs.

An Arab chief in his white burnous and flowing robes padded in soft shoes between the little crowds of cocottes who smiled into his grave face with its dark liquid eyes and pointed beard, like Othello the Moor.

But she is an elegant cocotte and with jewels.