What is "courtships"

Usage examples of "courtships".

Her courtships had been more noted for their quantity than their quality.

Men and women rarely conducted courtships beyond the most superficial of levels.

First, drinking from a can, whether it contains beer or soda pop, is a machismo thing, and in an age when we repress one machismo manifes­tation after another—old-style courtships, use of guns, certain speech patterns—young men are finding the beer can a last refuge.

She contrived, without precisely making so vulgar a boast, to convey the impression that she was escaping from courtships so persistent as to amount to persecution.

Seagulls were preoccupied with noisy courtships, or with harassing anyone who had food.

We sailors, Miss Elliot, cannot afford to make long courtships in time of war.