Definizione monolingua

dalliance

dalliance (plural dalliances)

1. Playful flirtation; amorous play. [from 14th c.]
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book V, chapter xi

     As in the season of rutting (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance, which in the well-wooded forest of Hampshire, passes between lovers of the ferine kind),

2. A wasting of time in idleness or trifles. [from 16th c.]
3. A sexual relationship, not serious but often illicit.

Definizione dizionario dalliance

Altri significati:

playful flirtation

a wasting of time in idleness or trifles

A sexual relationship, not serious but often illicit.

Playful flirtation; amorous play. [from 14th c.]

A wasting of time in idleness or trifles. [from 16th c.]