pay one's addresses

English

Alternative forms
  • make one's addresses

Verb

pay one's addresses (third-person singular simple present pays one's addresses, present participle paying one's addresses, simple past and past participle paid one's addresses)

  1. (now archaic) Of a man, to make respectful approaches to a woman with a view to courting her romantically.
    • 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 73:
      “I would be glad to know, whether this maid was in your service at the time you mention when Signor Zeluco paid his addresses to you?”
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