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receiving line

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receiving line
n.
A line of people formed to greet arriving guests individually, as at a formal gathering.


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Stand in the receiving line after the wedding or at the reception to welcome/thank all of the wedding guests.
Talking with a cross section of women about Michelle Obama's clothes, I found that older women were mostly unimpressed, while those under 45 admired her self-confident mixing-and-matching, her as-needed relationship with her mother, and, most of all, her courage to wear flat shoes at places like the White House receiving line.
The entire Palin family was in the receiving line on the tarmac at Minneapolis airport to greet McCain on his arrival today, including Bristol and her boyfriend, Levi Johnston.
 
 
 
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