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(Icon: entry "English" in the Oxford English Dictionary, 1933. Banner: page from Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale".)
Woo | wo͞o |
verb (woos, wooing, wooed) [with object]
1 seek the favor, support, or custom of: pop stars are being wooed by film companies eager to sign them up.
2 dated try to gain the love of (someone), especially with a view to marriage: he wooed her with quotes from Shakespeare.
Credit: OED