Dalliance

Quick meaning: Dalliance is a noun meaning Playful flirtation; amorous play.

Meaning

Playful flirtation; amorous play.

More Meanings

1. An episode of dabbling.
2. A wasting of time in idleness or trifles.
3. A sexual relationship, not serious but often illicit.

Example Sentences

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.

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),

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.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for dalliance

Depending on context, synonyms include flirtation, dawdling, idling, trifling, affair, affairette.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include flirting, flirtation, coquetry, toying, trifling, dawdling.

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