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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dalliance \Dal"li*ance\, n. [From {Dally}.]
     1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of
        caresses; wanton play.
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              Look thou be true, do not give dalliance


              Too much the rein.                    --Shak.
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              O, the dalliance and the wit,
              The flattery and the strife!          --Tennyson.
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     2. Delay or procrastination. --Shak.
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     3. Entertaining discourse. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dalliance
       n 1: the deliberate act of wasting time instead of working [syn:
            {dawdling}, {trifling}, {wasting time}]
       2: playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest [syn: {flirt},
           {flirting}, {flirtation}, {coquetry}, {toying}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "dalliance":
     amorous dalliance, amorous looks, billing and cooing, bundling,
     caressing, come-hither look, coquetry, coquettish glances,
     coquettishness, coyness, cuddling, dabbling, dallying, dawdling,
     dilatoriness, dillydallying, fiddling, flirtation, flirtatiousness,
     fondling, fooling, fooling around, goo-goo eyes, hugging, idling,
     jerking off, kidding around, kissing, lag, lagging, lingering,
     loitering, lollygagging, lovemaking, messing around, monkeying,
     monkeying around, necking, nestling, nuzzling, ogle, petting,
     piddling, playing, playing around, pottering, procrastination,
     puttering, sexual intercourse, shilly-shallying, smattering,
     snuggling, spooning, tarriance, tarrying, tinkering, toying,
     trifling, waiting
  
  

















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