courtship

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And, in the relief of noting this steady improvement, her mother continued to tolerate Lad's chumship with the child, although she had never lost her own first unreasoning fear of the big dog.

From Lad: A Dog by Terhune, Albert Payson

He was to escort Belle Meade—-an arrangement of chumship, for Belle wore the engagement ring of Dave Darrin, one of Greg's old High School chums.

From Dick Prescotts's Fourth Year at West Point Ready to Drop the Gray for Shoulder Straps by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)

Any chumship in evil is to be avoided. 

From Boys their Work and Influence by Anonymous

Cora, Bess and Belle were real girl chums, but they never knew all, the delights of chumship until they "went in" for motoring.

From The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar by Penrose, Margaret

These six young Americans, Gridleyites, amateur athletes and high school boys, were first introduced to the reader during their eventful days of early chumship at the Central Grammar School.

From The High School Boys in Summer Camp by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)