Dallying.
Trifling; toying; fondling.
The act of trifling, loitering, or playing.
Dallying, toying, or trifling: interchange of embraces: delay.
But whereas the opera in the seventeenth century suffered from contact with the public, the lyric drama of the sixteenth was led into paths of dalliance by the dominant taste of splendor- loving courts. "Some Forerunners of Italian Opera", William James Henderson.
But whereas the opera in the seventeenth century suffered from contact with the public, the lyric drama of the sixteenth was led into paths of dalliance by the dominant taste of splendor- loving courts.