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a man auditioning for love with flowers, swagger, and zero guarantee of a callback
means A person, traditionally a man, who courts someone with the hope of marriage or a romantic relationship.
from From Old French 'suitor' and ultimately Latin 'sequi,' meaning 'to follow' — the same root that gives us 'suit,' 'pursue,' and 'sequel.' A suitor is, quite literally, a follower: someone trailing after the object of their affection. The legal sense came first (a 'suitor' was a follower of a court, one bringing a 'suit'), and the romantic sense bloomed from the same idea of pursuing a cause and pleading one's case — here, the case being one's own heart.
- latin roots
- From sequi, to follow, like a lawsuit chasing you
- penelope's mob
- Odyssey had 108 suitors devouring one woman's house
- legal twin
- Same word means a plaintiff in court
- dowry math
- Many historically courted estates, not hearts
prince charles and diana — charles proposed to lady diana spencer in 1981, the most famous royal courtship of the 20th century
napoleon and josephine — napoleon courted josephine de beauharnais and married her in 1796 despite family opposition