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Grammar : Noun

Spell : dal-ee-uh ns, dal-yuh ns

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdæl i əns, ˈdæl yəns

Definition of dalliance

noun dawdling
noun love affair

Example sentences :

This dalliance, however, did not suit the ardor of my angry favorite.
Extract from : « Captain Canot » by Brantz Mayer

Let him start at once on the jack trail, that primrose path of dalliance.
Extract from : « Sally of Missouri » by R. E. Young

Sr W.—In sooth, when a shift's turned up, delay is meet for naught but dalliance.
Extract from : « 1601 » by Mark Twain

"Go to your dalliance," sneered Bora, who had overheard the message.
Extract from : « The Shadow of the Czar » by John R. Carling

Not returning in due course, her husband grew wroth at her dalliance.
Extract from : « Yorkshire Family Romance » by Frederick Ross

This dalliance with whisky, therefore, struck him as a needless compromise.
Extract from : « Twos and Threes » by G. B. Stern

There is nothing like it in the days of his dalliance with her.
Extract from : « The Love Affairs of Lord Byron » by Francis Henry Gribble

It came upon her burningly that it was to this that her dalliance with the count had brought her.
Extract from : « Albrecht » by Arlo Bates

It did not appear likely that I should enjoy much leisure for dalliance of the sort he blamed.
Extract from : « Phroso » by Anthony Hope

What an ending—what an ending—to those pleasant days of dalliance at Shaylor's Patch!
Extract from : « Mrs. Maxon Protests » by Anthony Hope

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