Crossword clues for dalliance
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dalliance \Dal"li*ance\, n. [From Dally.]
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The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play.
Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too much the rein.
--Shak.O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strife!
--Tennyson. Delay or procrastination.
--Shak.Entertaining discourse. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Playful flirtation; amorous play. (from 14th c.) 2 A wasting of time in idleness or trifles. (from 16th c.) 3 A sexual relationship, not serious but often illicit.
WordNet
n. the deliberate act of wasting time instead of working [syn: dawdling, trifling, wasting time]
playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest [syn: flirt, flirting, flirtation, coquetry, toying]
Wikipedia
Dalliance is a play by Tom Stoppard, based on Arthur Schnitzler's play Liebelei. Dalliance was first performed at the Lyttelton Theatre, London, on May 27, 1986.
Usage examples of "dalliance".
Paris, among the languid, dull, and nerveless beauties of the Court, whose favours are easily won because they look on dalliance as the best pastime offered them, and are eager for such opportunities of it as you fleering coxcombs will afford them.
When she is won, it will be by some bold and gallant gentleman, and by no mincing squire of dames, no courtly coxcomb, no fop of the Luxembourg, be his experiences of dalliance never so vast.
Ye know none other dalliance, I believe, But speak to us of untrust and repreve.
Why should you act the demure, servile wife while he flaunts a dalliance right before your eyes?
No matter how much Brandon enjoyed a dalliance, within two weeks he inevitably found himself looking for a new challenge.
Watkins is the only male servant, now that Botsworth has gone, and despite his age he still requires the occasional dalliance!
We thought highly of one, but he was disqualified after a preliminary background investigation turned up the fact that he had had a youthful dalliance with a picador in Seville.
Sir Stian, the lout of Harelby, would be interested in dalliance with her.
Thus as we reasoned together the courage of Venus assailed, as well our desires as our members, and so she unrayed herself and came to bed, and we passed the night in pastime and dalliance, till as by drowsie and unlusty sleep I was constrained to lie still.
Her artless dalliance and grace-- The joy that lighted up her brow-- The sweet expression of her face-- Her form--it stands before me now!
Then they would stop at length beside the road, get out, and take their woman up the hill into the bushes for an afternoon of dalliance underneath the laurel leaves, embedded in the thick green secrecies of a Southern growth that was itself as spermy, humid, hairy with desire, as the white flesh and heavy carnal nakedness of the whore.
Attuned to flirtation and dalliance as due an Absarokee warrior, he easily accepted the multitude of female favors cast in his direction.
Her dalliance with the Dakotan leader was widely known, and often discussed in her absence.
Monmouth, who has long lived in dalliance with the Midianitish woman known by the name of Wentworth, has at last turned him to higher things, and has consented to make a bid for the crown.
Only the slackest of mistresses would permit such dalliance, and Madame Delphine Lalaurie was known for the silent efficiency of her servants.