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1975 Newsweek 3 Mar. 64/1 The uncontested Prince of American Design murmured greetings to the chic crowd, carefully air-kissing their cheeks.

1988 People 16 May 57/1 More than 300 close personal friends gathered..to quaff Perrier and air-kiss the novelist's preternaturally taut cheeks.

1996 Time Out N.Y. 4 Sept. 42/4 A crowd of beautiful people, suntanned fashionistas and their coattail-riders, all air-kissing and cocktailing.

2004 Z. P. Lorenc & T. Hall Little Work xv. 207 She air-kissed me goodbye, but I couldn't tell what she would decide to do.

1983 Washington Post 4 Dec. (Style section) 15/6 She is not a social air-kisser, but a firm hand-shaker and confident conversationalist.

1986 Fortune (Nexis) 3 Mar. 117 One is an air kisser—that is, she kisses the air just behind my right ear.

2004 Observer (Nexis) 3 Oct. 5 A last-ditch attempt to rescue the place from the clutches of the fashionistas and the air-kissers.

1979 Washington Post 27 Nov. b6/2 Through the curtain from the next cubicle bursts a blithe spirit who gives Reza a bear-hug and a jet-setter's air-kissing peck on the cheek.

1980 N.Y. Times 27 Oct. b5/3 The Princess was talking about the cheek and air kissing that was going on all over the place.

1998 Independent 1 June i. 13/5 Mash is the current fave rave of every air-kissing media darling in the city.

2005 Gold Coast Bull. (Austral.) (Nexis) 1 Sept. 28 He's a pretty stylish guy, but all the air-kissing and some of the over-the-top types swanning around left him open-mouthed.