the act of dallying; flirting, toying, or trifling
Origin of dalliance
Middle English daliaunce from dalien
noun
The definition of a dalliance is a flirtation.
An example of a dalliance is two people having an office romance.
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dalliance
noun
- a. Casual romantic or sexual activity: “[The military campaigns] provided ample opportunity for dalliance with civilians and hence for the spread of sexually transmitted disease” ( Mark Harrison )b. A casual or brief romantic or sexual relationship: revealed his many dalliances in his memoirs.
- A brief involvement or interest in something: a dalliance with socialism.
- Frivolous spending of time; dawdling: passed the summer in idle dalliance.
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Noun
(plural dalliances)
Origin
From Middle English
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Sentence Examples
- My unhappy dalliance with the public school system has blessedly come to its end.
- Very rarely does a dalliance come to a happy end.
- Because of their happy, married lives, Frank and Beth's work dalliance didn't last long.
- It is not uncommon nowadays for teenagers to go quickly from one dalliance to another.
- I didn't hear about the supposed dalliance between Bill and Nancy until it was already over.
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Words near dalliance in the dictionary
- dalliance
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- dalliaunce
- dalliaunces