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keep company
Also, keep company with . Associate with; also, carry on a courtship. For example, He keeps company with a wild bunch , or Jack and Françoise kept company for two years before they married . [Mid-1500s]
keep someone company . Accompany or remain with someone, as in Mary kept Mother company while she shopped , or Do you want me to stay and keep you company? This term was originally put as bear someone company . [c. 1300]
Example Sentences
"I am willing to keep company with thee, if thou wilt promise to give me all thy earnings," said Vice.
The young woman I keep company with,” said I, “pray what do you mean?
To "kiss caps wi'," is to keep company with, to associate together in drinking.
The antique fireplace and the ancient mantelpiece were forced to keep company with meat blocks and butchers' cleavers.
At this time, Isaac began to "keep company," and to talk of getting married in the next decade.
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