foot kiss

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Noun

foot kiss (plural foot kisses)

  1. A reverential kiss on the footwear of the pope or other revered figure.
    A foot kiss leaves no shred of doubt about the pecking order.
    • 1992, Kartini (Raden Adjeng), Letters from Kartini: An Indonesian Feminist, 1900-1904 (page 480)
      At the formal introduction, that is when the bride and bridegroom were brought together, K. did not offer her husband a foot kiss, and oh, what a murmur did that not produce amongst the family,

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