oeillade
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See also: œillade
Englisch
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /əːˈjɑːd/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Nomen
oeillade (plural oeillades)
- (literary) A glance, especially an amorous one; an ogle
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
- I know your Lady do's not loue her Husband, / I am sure of that: and at her late being heere, / She gaue strange Eliads, and most speaking lookes / To Noble Edmund.
- 1984, Anthony Burgess, Enderby's Dark Lady:
- ‘My, my,’ she said, with an oeillade meant to be comic.
- 4 Sep 1999, Michael Billington, The Guardian:
- But the shifting moral tone is perfectly caught in Helen McCrory's polymorphous Phocion, who is mischievously aware of her sexual power and switches from macho snarls when seducing a woman to flirty oeillades when playing with a man.
Translations
glance, ogle
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French
Pronunciation
Nomen
oeillade f (plural oeillades)
- Nonstandard spelling of œillade.
Usage notes
- The œ ligature is often replaced in contemporary French with oe (the œ character does not appear on AZERTY keyboards), but this is nonstandard.
Further reading
- “oeillade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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