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Object of a suitor

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2010/02/15 - 5:57pm

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Does anybody know what you would call the object of a suitor or a wooer? The words suitee and wooee obviously do not exist. The only answers I can come up with are "lady" and "suitress," however they're both dated but gender specific. Neither work if a woman or gay man is the suitor.

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2010/02/15 - 9:07pm

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Perhaps it's time to bring back inamorato / inamorata.

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2010/02/16 - 12:11pm

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Though absolutely beautiful words, they're gender specific 🙁

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