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Dalliance   /dˈæliəns/   Listen
Dalliance

noun
1.
The deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working.  Synonyms: dawdling, trifling.
2.
Playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest.  Synonyms: coquetry, flirt, flirtation, flirting, toying.






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"Dalliance" Quotes from Famous Books



... is true, and requiring more care and protection and devotion than a bigger one; but still a woman. The pretty little ways, the eager caresses, the graspings and holdings of the childish hands, the little roguish smiles and pantings and flirtings were all but repetitions in little of the dalliance of long ago. The father, after all, reads in the same book in which ...
— The Man • Bram Stoker

... not only leave Short and his companions in the Lust Haus, but the widow and the lieutenant in their soft dalliance, and now occupy ourselves with the two principal personages of this our drama, Smallbones ...
— Snarleyyow • Captain Frederick Marryat

... unknown way, be particularly drawn together in a tie of inexpressible beatitude. He fretted at the delay; he would have taken me by the hand, and have joined her in the realms of holiness and light, at once, without this dreary dalliance with ...
— Father and Son • Edmund Gosse

... by the window, and stared out into the gloomy, lamplit street. And it crossed her mind to remember the bitter price so many women had paid for that dalliance and compromise, so many now probably gazing out with dull eyes into gloomy streets, ...
— Winding Paths • Gertrude Page

... no inquiry or explanation, no dalliance with emotion. His first words were a command, her inevitable response was to obey. Now, as always, she threw the whole responsibility upon him. And Emmet felt equal to the burden. He was like a god, knowing good and evil. ...
— The Mayor of Warwick • Herbert M. Hopkins


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