oeillade

/əːˈjɑːd/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Meaning

noun

Literary

"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."
"‘My, my,’ she said, with an oeillade meant to be comic."
"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."

Borrowed from French œillade.

oeillades (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce oeillade?

The recorded pronunciation is /əːˈjɑːd/.

What does oeillade mean?

A glance, especially an amorous one; an ogle

Where does oeillade come from?

Borrowed from French œillade.

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