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Kiss, The| Opera by Bedřich Smetana (libretto by E Krásnohorská, based on a story by K Svetlá), first produced in Prague, in the modern Czech Republic, on 7 November 1876. It tells how Vendulka declines a kiss from the widower Lukaš, for fear of offending the spirit of his dead wife. The pair are later united. |
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| There is the peck on the cheek kiss, the peck on each cheek kiss, the peck on your nephew''s cheek kiss while grabbing the other cheek flab with your hand, the madly passionate kiss, the kiss on the hand, the kiss of death, the "Hey you There have, in fact, been all sorts of kisses - the Judas kiss of treachery, the good luck kiss, the farewell kiss and the Glasgow kiss, usually preceded by the giver inquiring of the recipient: "Can yer mother stitch? In Opus Polyhistoricum de Osculis, his seminal 1,040-page treatise on snogging, the 17th-century German polymath Martin von Kempe identified 20 kinds of kiss, including the kiss of reconciliation, the hypocritical kiss, the kiss bestowed on inferiors by their superiors, the kiss carrying contagion, the lustful and adulterous kiss, the kiss used in academic degree ceremonies and, obviously, the kiss planted on the Pope's foot. |
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