The Collaborative International Dictionary
Leave-taking \Leave"-tak`ing\, n.
Taking of leave; the act of departing politely; the giving of
parting compliments.
--Shak.
Syn: farewell, leave, parting.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
alt. The process of saying goodbye. n. The process of saying goodbye.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Leave-Taking EP is an EP by Damon Albarn, Tony Allen and Flea under the name Rocket Juice & the Moon.
Usage examples of "leave-taking".
Ralph, rising with ill-concealed agitation, and stalking out of the room, without the curtest leave-taking.
There had been a heart wrenching leave-taking between Lady Cytherea and himself in which neither had laid any obligation upon the other, and he had sailed across the Atlantic feeling that his heart would never be whole again.
But Far-Awn’s vision was already bedazzled from too much brightness, too glazed with fatigue, with hunger, with thirst to see the first sun’s magnificent leave-taking.
With a dark frown upon his brow, he was scanning the crowd, and now and again a curse broke through his set lips when he saw the Stadtholder still delayed by futile leave-takings.
He had to stop them: raise a hand, a moan, anything to signal that this leave-taking was premature.
The pain, almost but not quite physical, made him long for scalding tea, a bit of sticky rice on the end of chopsticks, a magazine to read, anything mundane to take his mind from the extraordinary reverberations this leave-taking was inciting in him.