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‖ liaison
(lɪˈeɪzən, -zɒn, Fr. ljɛzɔ̃)
Also 8 liason.
[F.:—L. ligātiōn-em, n. of action f. ligāre to bind.]
1. Cookery. A thickening for sauces, consisting chiefly of the yolks of eggs; † also, the process of thickening. (Cf. lear2 2.)
a1648Digby Closet Open. (1671) 146 The last things [Butter, Bread, Flower] cause the liaison and thickening of the liquor. 1759W. Verral Cookery xv. 92 Prepare a liaison, or four or five yolks of eggs and some cream. 1797Lond. Art Cookery 142 Make ready a liason of two or three eggs and cream, with a little minced parsley and nutmeg. Ibid. 146 Skim and sift the sauce, add a little cullis to make it a liason. 1877in Cassell's Dict. Cookery.
2. a. gen. An intimate relation or connexion.
1809Edin. Rev. XIV. 226 The liaisons of Merlin with this man and Bazire gave rise to the following jeu d'esprit. 1870Putnam's Mag. May 545/2 The knowledge gained from these new sources..has..given new zest to the alleged liaisons of the Republic. 1974Country Life 5 Dec. 1814/2 Florence..remained..a home from home for the British... It is a liaison that seems to have lasted happily down the years.
b. spec. An illicit intimacy between a man and a woman.
1816Byron Let. 24 Dec. in Works (1900) IV. 29 She is by far the prettiest woman I have seen here... I believe I told you the rise and progress of our liaison in my former letter. 1821Byron Juan iii. xxv, Some chaste liaison of the kind—I mean An honest friendship with a married lady. 1821Shelley Lett. Prose Wks. 1888 II. 333 He [Byron] has a permanent sort of liaison with Contessa Guiccioli. 1849Thackeray Pendennis ix, ‘If it were but a temporary liaison,’ the excellent man said, ‘one could bear it... But a virtuous attachment is the deuce’. 1853Greville Mem. Geo. IV, Ser. iii. I. ii. 35 He was always much addicted to Gallantry, and had endless liaisons with women.
3. Phonetics. The joining of a final consonant (which would in pause or before a consonant be silent) to a following word beginning with a vowel or ‘mute’ h. Also in Music, in wider sense.
1884A. Gosset French Prosody 43 There is one letter in English, r, which admits in some cases of a sort of liaison in correct modern pronunciation. 1905Daily Chron. 7 Feb. 4/7 The nightly false ‘liaison’ made by a clever actress... ‘Take Lady Agatha-r-out,’ she says with terrible distinctness. 1917G. B. Shaw How to become Mus. Critic (1960) 292, I will not blame the singer for putting in a little liaison of her own at the reprise. 1929Amer. Speech V. 87, I noticed recently a curious instance of consonant liaison (if that is the term for a carrying-over that is commoner in French than in English). 1962Listener 6 Sept. 369/3 To our singers the style, the flavour, the true placing of the sounds, the liaisons—every aspect is elusive and deceptive.
4. Mil. Close connection and co-operation between two units, branches, allies, etc., esp. during a battle or campaign. Also transf.
1816H. Clarke Hist. War I. xliii. 702/1 Other advantages of a great and important nature arise from the combinations of the various corps of their invading armies maintaining their liaison or correspondence, by means of the..staff-establishments attached to every division. 1915Oxf. Mag. 29 Oct. 18/2 The ‘overseer’ of the Press..an unrivalled artist in the liaison of departments. 1920G. H. Perris Battle of Marne xi. 225 With the I Army pulling north-west, the II Army pulling south-east,..how could anything more than a pretence of liaison be kept up? 1920Q. Rev. July 138 It acted rather as a liaison between the Admiralty and the Press Bureau than as a branch of the latter. 1922Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 967/2 The welfare supervisor..is thus able to refer all matters calling for attention direct to the general manager and may be regarded by him as a liaison between him and the various departments dealing with the women employees. 1930A. W. Myers Lawn Tennis ix. 113 Mind and body must be working in liaison. 1964B. B. Schofield Russ. Convoys ii. 27 The main trouble during the first years of the war was the shortage of aircraft—otherwise the liaison between the two services was as good as it could be.
5. attrib. and Comb., esp. liaison officer, an officer in the Services who is concerned with the liaison of units, etc.; also transf.
1915‘I. Hay’ First Hundred Thousand xix. 285 He is one of that most efficient body, the French liaison officers, who act as connecting-link between the Allied Forces. 1916War Illustr. 9 Dec. 405 (caption) Army liaison dog leaving with a message attached to his collar. 1917Times 5 June 7/1 Members of Parliament have tended less and less in recent times to fulfil their primary duty as liaison officers between Parliament and the constituencies. 1918Daily Chron. 19 June 2/2 This position as ‘liaison Minister’ between the House and the War Cabinet. 1930N. & Q. 5 Apr. 250/2 This [book] is a liaison treatise of which ethics is the warp, and economics the very much less important woof, while the whole is coloured with a tinge of metaphysics. 1942R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 23 ‘L’ [stands] for ‘Liaison pilot’. 1946Sun (Baltimore) 18 Feb. 11/5 The Navy has tabbed entertainment with the high-sounding name liaison unit. 1954A. Huxley Let. Apr. (1969) 704 You unquestionably are the man to act as liaison officer between pure science and the rest of the world in this matter of the nature of the Mind. 1964Amer. Speech XXXIX. 233 Compares duration of liaison consonants, as in des airs, with that of medial consonants, as in désert. 1966B.B.C. Handbk. 75 The main duty of the department is to act in a liaison capacity. 1973Times 14 Nov. 8/1 The Israeli liaison officer said he had still not received permission for the journalists to go on to Suez. |