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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of dalliance.

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  • noun Obsolete spelling of dalliance.

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Examples

  • Their daliance is short lived, however, when Istvan's father, Count Thurzo, forces his son to stop seeing Erzebet, which throws the Countess into a frenzy when she suspects her age difference was the catalyst for the Count's rebuke.

    indieWIRE News 2009

  • Miami had traded Taylor to the Redskins after his Dancing With the Stars daliance raised questions about his offseason commitment to a team in transition under new executive VP of football operations Bill Parcells and new head coach Tony Sparano.

    Jason Taylor the sackmaster supreme in the NFL in 2000s 2010

  • Is your family up to the continued exercitions of YOUR daliance???

    Sanford should stay, two top South Carolina papers say 2009

  • You'd never even have known about it if it was some non-sexual friend he happened to have in Argentina that he met for dinner ... or if he was unmarried and had a random daliance with someone he met at a bar one night while there.

    Sanford latest possible 2012 contender with issues 2009

  • No concrete evidence exists suggesting his daliance with his mistress while there on business was anything other than just that ... an opportunity he just couldn't pass up.

    Sanford should stay, two top South Carolina papers say 2009

  • RENEWABLES are NOT GREEN ,Better it would be if the listing AM of south Wales West ,member of the official opposition in Cardiff BAY joins forces with his equally listing Bourneron Tories to get this insane and wasteful daliance with inefficient and despoiling Wind machinery well and truly off the current Plaid/labour inspired agenda once and for all.

    No energy 2007

  • My handle on FDL is a sneaky tribute to her liberal politics, March birthday and whimsical daliance with the arcade game Frogger –as well as the Joe Wilson quote about Karl Rove.

    Firedoglake » Gratitude and the FDL Community 2006

  • Sen. John C. Frémont was accused of cannibalism when he ran for president, and believe it or not, Thomas Jefferson was accused of a daliance with a slave, even having a child with her.

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

  • Kurt, over at Return to Comics, has started reading comics again after having been out of the game for twenty-five years except for a prief daliance with Image ca. 1993, and Zilla, Comics Junkie comes back into the fold after a 15-year hiatus.

    Returning to Comics David S. Carter 2005

  • Faire christall, guilded with his glorious eye, Fearing some usurpation in his stead, Or least his Loue should too-long daliance spy Tweene him and _Virgo_, whose attractiue face, Had newly made him leaue the _Lyons_ chase.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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