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1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xxiii. 230 We see visiting young ladies stand on the stoop, and laugh, and kiss good-bye, and flirt their fans and say ‘Come soon—now do’.

1935 C. Day Lewis Time to Dance & Other Poems 33 On January 8, 1920, their curveting wheels kissed England goodbye.

1959 Listener 8 Jan. 50/1 It would be exaggerating the trend to say that the Chinese are almost ready to kiss the Soviet experts goodbye.

1967 Hovercraft World Jan.–Apr. 14/1 We waved good-bye..at 10.15 hours heading for Wexford, 75 miles away.

1987 D. Simpson Elem. of Doubt (1988) xiii. 153 Joan kissed him goodbye as usual, but there was no warmth in it, merely a brief contact of flesh against flesh, as impersonal as a social kiss at a party.

1991 C. James Brrm! Brrm! (1992) vii. 86 Lilian..had smiled goodbye and gone.

2001 Times 5 Mar. i. 4/8 Malcolm..waved goodbye to passengers aboard the cruise liner Paradise.