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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

Synonyms for dalliance

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