Sealed with a kiss

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Did the expression "sealed with a kiss" (at least as applied to letters) originate in the song of that title?
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[nq:1]Did the expression "sealed with a kiss" (at least as applied to letters) originate in the song of that title?[/nq]
"SWALK" was WW2, if not earlier, wasn't it?

Ross Howard

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[nq:1]Did the expression "sealed with a kiss" (at least as applied to letters) originate in the song of that title?[/nq]
No. The song was 1962, and letters bearing acroyms such as "SWALK" (Sealed With A Loving Kiss) were in regular use during WWII.

I'm sure most people are familiar with some of the other, more ribald, variants - BURMA (Be Undressed & Ready, My Angel) NORWICH (kNickers Off Ready When I Come Home), etc. :~)
Mike M

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[nq:2]Did the expression "sealed with a kiss" (at least as applied to letters) originate in the song of that title?[/nq]
[nq:1]"SWALK" was WW2, if not earlier, wasn't it?[/nq]
BURMA
Not to mention ITALY NORWICH HOLLAND and EGYPT
OED has SWAK from 1925
There is a theory that the geographical phrases were intended as code indicators of the writer's whereabouts and later became known by their acronyms.

John Dean
Oxford

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[nq:1]BURMA Not to mention ITALY NORWICH HOLLAND and EGYPT OED has SWAK from 1925 There is a theory that the geographical phrases were intended as code indicators of the writer's whereabouts and later became known by their acronyms.[/nq]
What's PARIS mean then?
Romeo & Juliet, V.3, at the tomb:
... Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death!
Not a letter, I grant; only an unwritten bargain. There's something similar in King John, too, with "indenture", the same searchable corpus tells me.
OED1 has, from Greene, 1589, "They plighted faith and troth, and Carmela...sealed it with a kisse."
But still not a piece of paper. I was counting on OED, too.

Mike.

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[nq:1]Romeo & Juliet, V.3, at the tomb: ... Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss[/nq]
Having performed "Hair" in college, I always think of the next line as "The rest is silence", although, of course that's from Hamlet.
[nq:1]A dateless bargain to engrossing death![/nq]
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[nq:2]BURMA Not to mention ITALY NORWICH HOLLAND and EGYPT OED ... the writer's whereabouts and later became known by their acronyms.[/nq]
[nq:1]What's PARIS mean then?[/nq]
'Please Arrange Really Interesting ***'?

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Robin Bignall
Hertfordshire
England

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[nq:2]What's PARIS mean then?[/nq]
[nq:1]'Please Arrange Really Interesting ***'?[/nq]
"Procure And Ready Irish Sheep"..r

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[nq:2]What's PARIS mean then?[/nq]
[nq:1]'Please Arrange Really Interesting ***'?[/nq]
Don't ask about AFRICA.

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