courtship
Example Sentences
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It is an easy act of courtship, such as buying flowers for a lover, but one whose love you already feel secure in.
Gen Z has strong feelings about the stylistic imbalance that can doom a courtship; ‘It felt like a smack in the face.’
Some attribute it to Austen’s role in ushering in the rom-com, and perfecting the “marriage plot” in her courtship novels.
From Los Angeles Times
He wooed his wife with poems during their long-distance courtship in the early 1980s and still writes her a love poem every day.
Her cousin Cathy — who is 11 years her senior — also did not know the details of their courtship.
From Los Angeles Times
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