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olfactory kiss en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. The touching or rubbing of noses between two people.
    • Among primitive races and Orientals the olfactory kiss is believed to produce a powerful sexual reaction. 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 181:
    • Throughout the world there are two main varieties of kisses: the touch, tactile, or lip kiss, osculus Europeanus - and the nose or olfactory kiss, osculus Asiaticus. 1926, Clement Wood, The Art of Kissing, Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Junius Company, page 9:

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Synonyms

Eskimo kiss · nose kiss