01 n. The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties o…
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The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society.“The pompous etiquette to the court of Louis the Fourteenth.” — Prescott.