A French kiss is a kiss, usually romantic or sexual, in which one participant's tongue touches the other's tongue and usually enters his or her mouth.
In many parts of the world, this kind of kissing as a public display of affection is discouraged and may even be regarded as taboo.
The colloquial term French kissing does not necessarily stem from France. In France, it is referred to as baiser amoureux ("love kiss") or baiser avec la langue ("kiss with the tongue"), even if in past times it was also known as baiser florentin ("Florentine kiss"). Notably in some northern parts of France, it is spoken as baiser anglais ("English kiss").[citation needed]
In French slang, a French kiss is called a patin (ice skating shoe) or a galoche. Doing a French kiss is referred to rouler un patin ("roll a skate", as in ice skating shoe) or rouler une pelle ("roll a shovel"). French kiss is cited in Private Lindner’s Letters: Censored and uncensored letters, anecdotes, sketches,[1] a collection of items gathered during World War I and published in 1939:
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