the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > court or engage in courtship [verb (intransitive)] > walk out with person as lover (6)
intransitive. To court, ‘keep company’, with a view to marriage. Frequently with together, with. Cf. sense 20 and to step out 6 at step, v. phrasal…
To appear in company or society; spec. to accompany or walk out (with a person of the opposite sex); to consort (with a lover). North American dialect…