RAILLERY \RAY-luh-ree, noun:
1. Good-humored banter or teasing.
2. An instance of good-humored teasing; a jest.
After a few hours with wine at the fire, she misinterpreted his RAILLERY for an open call to flirt. She would learn later, when he didn’t return her phone calls, that his teasing was nothing more than amusement.
