oeillade

oeillade

See also: œillade

English

WOTD – 12 July 2011

Etymology

Borrowed from French œillade.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əːˈjɑːd/

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Noun

oeillade (plural oeillades)

1. (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 606515358, [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

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: սիրավառ հայացք (siravaṙ hayacʿkʿ) Chinese: Mandarin: 媚眼 (zh) (mèiyǎn) Czech: pohled (cs) m Finnish: silmäys (fi) French: œillade (fr) f German: Augenaufschlag (de) m Hindi: please add this translation if you can Italian: please add this translation if you can Japanese: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: olhar (pt) m Russian: то́мный взгляд m (tómnyj vzgljad), не́жный взгляд m (néžnyj vzgljad), (somewhat) (взгляд) с поволо́кой (ru) (s povolókoj), влюблённый взгляд m (vljubljónnyj vzgljad) Spanish: mirada lujuriosa f Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

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French

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Noun

oeillade f (plural oeillades)

1. 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.