What does oeillade mean?
Oeillade means (literary) A glance, especially an amorous one; an ogle.
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/əːˈjɑːd/ · noun
(literary) A glance, especially an amorous one; an ogle.
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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Oeillade means (literary) A glance, especially an amorous one; an ogle.
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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.
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