Meaning of oeillade | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A glance, especially an amorous one; an ogle
   literary
2. Alternative spelling of oeillade.
   alt-of, alternative

Equivalents

Examples

“I know your Lady do's not loue her Husband, / I am sure of that: and at her late being heere, / She gaue strange Eliads, and most speaking lookes / To Noble Edmund.”

“‘My, my,’ she said, with an oeillade meant to be comic.”

“But the shifting moral tone is perfectly caught in Helen McCrory's polymorphous Phocion, who is mischievously aware of her sexual power and switches from macho snarls when seducing a woman to flirty oeillades when playing with a man.”

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