oeillade

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
11
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/əːˈjɑːd/(UK)

Definition of oeillade

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (literary)A glance, especially an amorous one; an ogle
    “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.”

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Etymology

Borrowed from French œillade.

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