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Definition of Dalliances
1. dalliance [n] - See also: dalliance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dalliances
Literary usage of Dalliances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks by Thomas Brooks, Alexander Balloch Grosart (1866)
"... whilst she continues to hold her wanton lovers still in her arms, and is fully
resolved to hold on in her wanton dalliances as in times past. 0 sirs ! ..."
2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"The poets therefore did well to feign all shepherds lovers, to give themselves
to songs and dalliances, because they lived such idle lives. ..."
3. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1878)
"... they challenge admiration of another kind and of a very high order; for certain
it is that these dalliances detracted but little from her fame and ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1855)
"... that to please them they burnt entire poems of the ancient Greeks, but especially
those which record the loves, impure dalliances, ..."
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