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dalliance

[ dal-ee-uhns, dal-yuhns ]

noun

  1. a trifling away of time; dawdling.
  2. amorous toying; flirtation.


dalliance

/ ˈdælɪəns /

noun

  1. waste of time in frivolous action or in dawdling
  2. an archaic word for flirtation
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of dalliance1

First recorded in 1300–50, dalliance is from the Middle English word daliaunce. See dally, -ance
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Example Sentences

I have a new baseline threshold for pepper pain, forever skewed by my dalliance with the Reaper.

The most famous song is “Motion Sickness,” which ossifies her real-life dalliance with Ryan Adams.

From Time

That dalliance culminated at a local 5K, where I ran a relatively impressive race.

Nearly four years after media’s first doomed dalliance with the blockchain, which was supposed to remedy some of ad tech’s transparency problems and fight fraud, the NFT mania was hard to take seriously.

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To the naked eye, it looks like media companies’ dalliances with NFTs have come to an end.

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Should she leave her husband and endure loneliness or tolerate his dalliance and keep a companion for old age?

Itching for the erotic details of Jess and Nick's New Girl dalliance?

There are tantalizing snippets of love affairs and brief trysts—including a dalliance with Mick Jagger.

These affinities are arguably at the heart of the 40-year dalliance of Iranian and Syrian despots.

Gingrich, of course, had been leading the impeachment drive against Bill Clinton over his own dalliance with a White House intern.

It was nothing to do with Michael Fane; it was solely his own determination to put an end to his unprofitable dalliance.

The primrose path of dalliance did not lead them to peace, and the pursuit of variety in love brought them only monotony.

It is not with gentle hands, not with the dalliance of effeminate fingers, that such a task is done.

At the disheveled tables disheveled couples were engaged in dalliance more or less maudlin.

Only one morning paper implied that Persis had strayed into the primrose path of dalliance.

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