Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Dalliance

Dalliance , noun

[From Dally.]

1.
The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play.
Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too much the rein. — Shakespeare
O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strife! — Tennyson
2.
Delay or procrastination. — Shakespeare
3.
Entertaining discourse. [Obsolete] — Chaucer