Meaning of Dalliance | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Playful flirtation; amorous play.
   countable, uncountable
2. An episode of dabbling.
   countable, uncountable
3. A wasting of time in idleness or trifles.
   countable, uncountable
4. A sexual relationship, not serious but often illicit.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“As in the season of rutting (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance, which in the well-wooded forest of Hampshire, passes between lovers of the ferine kind),”

“But, with a gesture, she put⟳ a period to this dalliance—one shouldn't palter so on an empty stomach, she might almost have⟳ said.”

“Quite a few minutes would be spun out, for instance, at the smallish town of Chirk, but to me the dalliance was generally worthwhile, except in wet⟳ weather, because of the increasing beauty of the wooded hill scenery thereabouts.”

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