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osculation

[os-kyuh-ley-shuhn] / ˌɒs kyəˈleɪ ʃən /


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One of the play's more memorable exchanges directly engages the all-important subject of theatrical osculation.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2016

On the same day I saw “Vanya,” I was treated to a more optimistic act of osculation in the afternoon.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2011

Acts of osculation have of course been known to sweep people off their feet.

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2011

It stands fragrantly like a bride at the altar, awaiting the embrace of fresh butter and an osculation of jam.

From Time Magazine Archive

In its upright, unostentatious cradle it is protected against that injudicious fondling and dangerous promiscuous osculation to which, as an infant in human arms, it is so often subjected.

From Stories in Light and Shadow by Harte, Bret




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