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NOSE TO NOSE AND HAND TO HAND IN COURTEOUS SALUTATION
This form of greeting, which takes the place of the kiss — the
latter a salute unknown or despised over nearly half the world, by
Polynesians, Mongols, and Malays — is often incorrectly described
as "rubbing noses," whereas the nostrils are in reality pressed together;
the essential fundamental distinction being between smelling and tasting,
in primeval origins of these two salutations
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