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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 837 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KISS  , the

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act of pressing or touching with the lips, cheek,
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hand or lips of another, as a sign or expression of love,
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affection, reverence or greeting .
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Skeat (Etym . Dict., 1898) connects the
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Tent.
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base kussa with
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Lat. gust us,
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taste, and with Goth. kustus, test, from kinsan, to choose, and takes " kiss " as ultimately a doublet of " choice." For the liturgical osculum pads or " kiss of
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peace," see
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PAX . See further C . Nyrop, The Kiss and its
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History, trans. by W . F .
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Harvey (1902); J . J .
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Claudius, Dissertatio de salutationibus veterum (
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Utrecht, 1702); and " Baisers d'6tiquette " (1689) in Archives curieuses de l'histoire de
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France (1834-1890,
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series ii. tom . 12) .

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