handclasp
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of handclasp
Example Sentences
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What matters is the listening, the bearing witness—the quiet handclasp that says, I hear you.
From Slate ● May 30, 2017
And although both Miss Gish and her step-daughter Sonia love Dr. Astrov, no entente more cordial than a handclasp is ever consummated.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whenever possible, he applied the personal touch: a fervent handclasp, an embrace, a clutched arm, a kiss.
From Time Magazine Archive
They all found his manner as genial, his handclasp as warm, his lan guage as blunt as ever.
From Time Magazine Archive
As he held her hand in the handclasp, he thought, “She’ll be my wife, someday, God and she willin’.”
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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