Read full poem →times not their normal selves? When they're full up with wine or
beer or whiskey, when they're courting, when they're pursuing some
illicit love, when after fifty they get a little odd in their ways
Dictionary Entry
To seek to achieve or win.
In a Sentence
“He was courting big new accounts that previous salesman had not attempted.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. courtingdisaster courtingcouples courting
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Poetry examples for “courting”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →To think it ivory was a thought too mean;
So would believe she kissed, and courting more,
Again embraced her naked body o'er;
Read full poem →scene, a task uncouth to the poetical mind--these were his motives for
courting the Muses, and in these he found poetry to be its own reward.
Read full poem →Was Arthur Amy. You know who he was.
That was the way he started courting me.
He never said much after we were married,
Read full poem →Awhile with self, and faltered,
“Why courting misadventure shoreward roam?
To Molly, surely! Seek the woods with her till times have altered;