courting:

Seeking a persons affection .
Etymology: From the Latin cohors, meaning an enclosed garden or courtyard, the place where knights courted ladies in Medieval times.

Quote: Lucy (Julie Kavner) to Ellen (Debra Winger) in Forget Paris (1995): ' Forget Paris. He was courting. They'll do anything when they're courting .'

See Also: 175, abandonment (of a child), abortion law, Adam-and-Eveing, arm-in-arming, cavalier, CDA, Communications Decency Act, courtesan, courting, cupiding, darksetting, doing a line, dueting, erotica, go a sparking, hair court, Hollywooing, income tax, lovers lane, making love, man-and-womanizing, palimony, pornocracy, prurient interest, reno-it, Reno-vate, Reno-vation, rob the cradle, run after, shunamitism, sodoma imperfecta, sparking, sweethearting, table-for-twoing, throw oneself at, tool, woo

Quotes Containing courting:
''Forget Paris. He was courting . They''ll do anything when they''re courting .'' Lucy (Julie Kavner) to Ellen (Debra Winger) in Forget Paris (1995)
'Forget Paris. He was courting . They'll do anything when they're courting .' Lucy (Julie Kavner) to Ellen (Debra Winger) in Forget Paris (1995)
Karen (Satah Taylor) in Courting Courtney (1997): ''Nice guys are boring... until you''re 30. Then they''re scarce.''
Karen (Satah Taylor) in Courting Courtney (1997): ''Nice guys are boring... until you''re 30. Then they''re scarce.''
''Easy now! Easy now! Is this a courting or a donnybrook? Have the good manners not to hit the man until he''s your husband and able to hit you back .'' Michaelen Flynn (Barry Fitzgerald), the matchmaker, to Mary Kate Danaher (Maureen O''Hara) and Sean Thornton (John Wayne) in The Quiet Man (1952)

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