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ETIQUETTE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Rules governing socially acceptable behavior
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("etiquette" is a kind of...):
prescript; rule (prescribed guide for conduct or action)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "etiquette"):
protocol (forms of ceremony and etiquette observed by diplomats and heads of state)
punctilio (a fine point of etiquette or petty formality)
Context examples:
We came back to town quietly, taking a 'bus to Hyde Park Corner. Jonathan thought it would interest me to go into the Row for a while, so we sat down; but there were very few people there, and it was sad-looking and desolate to see so many empty chairs. It made us think of the empty chair at home; so we got up and walked down Piccadilly. Jonathan was holding me by the arm, the way he used to in old days before I went to school. I felt it very improper, for you can't go on for some years teaching etiquette and decorum to other girls without the pedantry of it biting into yourself a bit; but it was Jonathan, and he was my husband, and we didn't know anybody who saw us—and we didn't care if they did—so on we walked.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He was afraid that he might call too soon, and so be guilty of an awful breach of that awful thing called etiquette.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Several weeks went by, during which Martin Eden studied his grammar, reviewed the books on etiquette, and read voraciously the books that caught his fancy.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Martin Eden, the first thing to-morrow you go to the free library an' read up on etiquette.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Imagine Mr. Butler living up to social etiquette and enunciating his views on Paul Verlaine or the German drama or the novels of D'Annunzio.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He was appalled at the vast edifice of etiquette, and lost himself in the mazes of visiting-card conduct between persons in polite society.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He forgot to eat, and sought on for the books on etiquette; for, in addition to career, his mind was vexed by a simple and very concrete problem: When you meet a young lady and she asks you to call, how soon can you call? was the way he worded it to himself.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
As she arose, there shot through his mind something that he had read in the etiquette books, and he stood up awkwardly, worrying as to whether he was doing the right thing, and fearing that she might take it as a sign that he was about to go.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
