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receiving line
noun
A queue of guests waiting to greet or condole the guests of honor at a wedding or other ceremony.
Exact(60)
No receiving line.
· Ending receiving line early.
A receiving line has formed.
On the receiving line, she thinks, "The party's a disaster".
"When we got to the reception, the receiving line?
I met the Trumps in the receiving line.
"I wasn't planning on doing a receiving line," he said.
Richard Oldenburg, the museum director, was on the receiving line.
Then the heads of state stopped after they came through the President's formal receiving line, making me almost the center of a second receiving line.
A receiving line formed; women curtsied and men dramatically doffed their top hats.
Afterward, Mr. Gallo and Ms. Sevigny formed a tiny receiving line outside the theater.
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