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Etiquette
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What's The Definition Of Etiquette?
[n] rules governing socially acceptable behavior
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or a mark or title, affixed to a bag or bundle, expressing
its contents, a label, ticket, OF. estiquete, of German
origin; cf. LG. stikke peg, pin, tack, stikken to stick, G.
stecken. See {Stick}, and cf. {Ticket}.]
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.
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