stage kiss
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stage kiss (plural stage kisses)
- A kiss performed by actors on a stage, in a film, etc., thus simulating but lacking genuine romantic or sexual emotion.
- 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 178:
- "There's a stage kiss," she said. "I can't have my make-up ruined."
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