English Dictionary

dalliance

/ˈdalɪəns/

noun

Playful flirtation; amorous play. / A episode of dabbling. / A wasting of time in idleness or trifles. / A sexual relationship, not serious but often illicit.

She engaged in a dalliance with her co-worker at the office party.

意味（1）

Playful flirtation; amorous play.

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),

意味（2）

A episode of dabbling.

意味（3）

A wasting of time in idleness or trifles.

But, with a gesture, she put a period to this dalliance—one shouldn't palter so on an empty stomach, she might almost have said.

意味（4）

A sexual relationship, not serious but often illicit.