Tolstoy also details the acceptability of adulterous "liaisons" in aristocratic Russian society:

Al Clark read the original story about adulterous liaisons with a sinking heart.

I am the issue of an adulterous liaison.

I was conceived from an adulterous liaison between my mother and ... another man.

'You may think that an odd word for an adulterous liaison, but in my husband's case it was accurate, I assure you.'

Upper-class men and women indulged in adulterous liaisons.

Other examples: A character named Teresa begins an adulterous liaison with a local anchorman who seems headed toward a nervous breakdown.

Chaos - that is, revealing their adulterous liaison - means "the destruction of our families."

A mamzer in Jewish law is a child resulting from an adulterous or incestuous liaison.

Roman began stalking Maureen and filming her adulterous liaisons with other men including Hank.