osculation

• However, while the Schumers and Liebermans of this world celebrate Freeman's withdrawal and engage in their enthusiastic osculation of AIPAC's obliging hindquarters, they should consider that continued confrontation in the Middle East and drift in U.S. policy will have real costs for American interests and the world. —  CounterPunch
• I don't profess to understand all of our myriad gender differences, but I think I get it when it comes to osculation (the scientific term for kissing, in case you didn't pick up on that earlier). —  guttervomit | a collection of stuff by luis buenaventura
• Although I'm analyzing osculation rather clinically in this piece, the most important thing you need to take away is that it needs to come off as natural. —  guttervomit | a collection of stuff by luis buenaventura
• As one contemporaneous account put it, "Their [Rice's and Irwin's] smiles and glances and expressive gestures, and the final joyous, overpowering, luscious osculation was repeated again and again, while the audience fairly shrieked and howled approval." —  YubaNet.com
• 'Cap'n Abner Budlong,' he exclaimed, 'step aft and kiss the bride When this command had been obeyed with urbane alacrity, Sam called out again, very much as if he were piping all hands to osculation: 'Rev. —  John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein

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