“The cheeky comedian admitted that he had a naughty dalliance with the Prince's bride to be.”
“I thought a man in your position would have understood, as seemed clear to me, that this was simply an enjoyable dalliance rather than the precursor of something, indeed of anything, deeper.”
“Those seeking enlightenment were lured to waste their time in dalliance with ideas that did little more than divert attention from the deeper structural causes of the crisis.”
dally
Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in roping.