And as they had moved through the dense throng of little tables surrounded by officers and cocottes, amid a clamour of glasses and laughter and scraping chairs, with music on the distant stage, Mr. Spokesly experienced a new pleasure.
"Command"
William McFee
They are far handsomer and more gallant than any of you, and if we must be driven into the ranks of the cocottes, we'd rather know by whom and for whom.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
Beware, as a rule, of the lover offering gifts, for that simply breeds cocottes.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann