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Definition of Flirtation
1. Noun. Playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest.
Generic synonyms: Caper, Frolic, Gambol, Play, Romp
Derivative terms: Coquet, Dally, Dally, Flirt, Flirtatious, Flirt, Flirt, Flirt, Toy
Definition of Flirtation
1. n. Playing at courtship; coquetry.
Definition of Flirtation
1. Noun. Playing at courtship; coquetry. ¹
2. Noun. An instance of flirting. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flirtation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flirtation
Literary usage of Flirtation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southern Literary Messenger (1849)
"In saying that flirtation is a subject much talked of, ... In the first place
then, flirtation is not love- making, nor any thing like it. ..."
2. Romantic Love and Personal Beauty: Their Development, Causal Relations by Henry Theophilus Finck (1887)
"flirtation is like the slime on water-plants, making them hard to handle, ...
One reason why flirtation and Coquetry are so apt to be confounded is because ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1870)
"It is, however, in a refined country that flirtation is best understood in all
its bearings. Courtship in barbarous lands, ending with submission or capture ..."
4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1881)
"You had many a gay flirtation. But your pride at last came down. ... Twas a
desperate, short flirtation With beautiful Saille Brown, And excited the ..."
5. Shakspeare's Sonnets Never Before Interpreted: His Private Friends by Gerald Massey (1866)
"ELIZABETH VERNON REPAYS THE EARL BY A flirtation OF HER OWN: HIS ... The lady is
bent on punishing her lover, apparently, by a flirtation of her own. ..."
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