Today's Word "osculation"
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osculation \os-kyuh-LAY-shuhn\ (noun) - The act of kissing; also: a kiss.
"Within a week fifty thousand women in forty counties had pictured to themselves this osculation of intellects, and shrugged their shoulders, and decided once more that men were incomprehensible." -- Arnold Bennett, 'The Old Wives' Tale'
Osculation comes from osculatio, "a kissing," from osculari, "to kiss," from osculum, "a little mouth, a kiss," diminutive of os, "mouth."
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