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Caress   /kərˈɛs/   Listen
Caress

noun
1.
A gentle affectionate stroking (or something resembling it).  "Soft music was a fond caress" , "The caresses of the breeze played over his face"
verb
(past & past part. caressed; pres. part. caressing)
1.
Touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner.  Synonym: fondle.  "They fondled in the back seat of the taxi"






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"Caress" Quotes from Famous Books



... see; the youthful hands we have clasped so often in love and friendship in our own, once more we seem to press, unchanged by time, unchanged by fate, beckoning to us lovingly to follow them, still trying with loving caress and youthful smiles to lead us to their shadowy world beyond. O youth, beautiful and undying, the sage's dream, the poet's song, all that is loving and lovely, is centred still in thee! O lovely youth, with thine arrowy form, and slender hands, thy pearly teeth, and saintly smile, thy pleading ...
— Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration • Ernest Giles

... closed the gate between them. He leaned over it to kiss her, but she evaded his caress and ran lightly ...
— The Colonel's Dream • Charles W. Chesnutt

... day, to the house, Madam Conway kept Maggie carefully from her sight, until at last she begged so hard to see her that her wish was gratified; and as she manifested no disposition whatever to molest the child, Madam Conway's fears gradually subsided, and Hagar was permitted to fondle and caress her as often ...
— Maggie Miller • Mary J. Holmes

... Had they ever been separated? She almost doubted it, she had lived so near him in thought. It was with a sort of ecstasy that she looked at him. There was a world of entreaty in her eyes; they seemed to be begging a caress; she raised her quivering lips to his, but he did not observe it. For a long time she hesitated, fearing he might spurn her; but at last, yielding to a supreme impulse, she threw her arms around his neck, drew him toward ...
— Baron Trigault's Vengeance - Volume 2 (of 2) • Emile Gaboriau

... my first touch," came across the moonbeams in a voice as fluty as the original Pan's, and mingled with friendly chuckles and clucks from the entire Bird family as they felt the caress of long hands among them. I was so ruffled myself that I felt in need of soothing; so I came across the light and into the black shadow of the ...
— The Golden Bird • Maria Thompson Daviess


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