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Examples of dalliance
dalliance
Collecting Bugattis was a dalliance slotted between water skiing and sky diving.
From the post-gazette.com
Surveys show women to be less shocked by the White House dalliance than men are.
From the time.com
Here are just some of them to help you kick-start your dalliance with Lady Luck.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
I tell James, my former more-off-than-on dalliance, in a slightly gloating email.
From the guardian.co.uk
His mother, impregnated by the god Apollo, started a dalliance with someone else.
From the time.com
After a dalliance with Wednesday in 2007, Utah shifted back to Tuesday in 2008.
From the sltrib.com
There's a reason that architecture used to be the dalliance of the landed gentry.
From the guardian.co.uk
After admitting the dalliance in 2007, he sought treatment for a drinking problem.
From the washingtontimes.com
There also were rumors swirling around Kate's possible dalliance with a bodyguard.
From the ocregister.com
- The deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working
- Flirt: playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest
- "Dalliance," by Tom Stoppard is based on the play "Liebelei," by Arthur Schnitzler. "Dalliance" was first performed at the Lyttelton Theatre, London, on May 27, 1986.
- (Dalliances) Affair may refer to professional, personal, or public business matters or to a particular business or private activity, as in family affair, a private affair, or a romantic affair.
- Playful flirtation; amorous play. [from 14th c.]; A wasting of time in idleness or trifles. [from 16th c.]; A sexual relationship, not serious but often illicit
- (1016) flirting, toying, or trifling. Milton uses the term as a euphemism for sex.
- A brief love affair.
- N. playful flirtation.
