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salutation
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
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As he rode up to the church, the old priest came out to meet him, and after his salutation stood looking at Father Latour, shading his failing eyes with his hand.†
Part 3 *
He rode up to the Bishop and reining in his black gelding, uncovered his head in a broad salutation, while his escort surrounded the churchmen and fired their muskets into the air.†
Part 5
Father Vaillant caught up his two valises himself, the chamberlain not being there at the moment, and thus laden, was bowing himself backward out of the presence, when the Pope rose from his chair and lifted his hand, not in benediction but in salutation, and called out to the departing missionary, as one man to another, "Coraggio, Americano!"†
Part 7

Definitions:

(1) (salutation)
a greeting -- such as "Hi", "Dear John:", or "Ladies and Gentlemen"

or:

the act of greeting
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Much more rarely, a salutation can refer to a gesture or verbal acknowledgement of someone's departure.