Amorous proposals or intercourse, courtship.
c. 1450. Merlin, 87. Vlfyn is som-what a-quytte of the synne that he hadde in the love makinge.
1829. Lytton, Devereux, II. ii. I looked round that mart of millinery and love-making, which was celebrated in the reign of Charles II.
1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res. (1858), 114. The whole Borough, with all its love-makings and scandal-mongeries.
fig. 1625. Bacon, Ess., Truth (Arb.), 500. The Inquirie of Truth, which is the Loue-making, or Wooing of it.
attrib. 1830. Moore, Mem. (1854), VI. 135. My sweet Bess and I recollected the time when we used, in our love-making days, to stroll for hours there together.
So Love-maker, Love-making a.
1747. Sarah Fielding, Fam. Lett., 81. The Conversation of Fools and general Love-makers.
1868. Browning, Ring & Bk., VI. 1532. I …bear no more love-making devils: hence!
