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Comme il faut

adjective
1.
According with custom or propriety.  Synonyms: becoming, comely, decent, decorous, seemly.  "Comely behavior" , "It is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money" , "A decent burial" , "Seemly behavior"






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"Comme il faut" Quotes from Famous Books



... had to read it over and over many times, and it seemed as if Paula wished to learn it by heart. Even my father read it with great attention and appeared quite pleased. Teresa declared that "The god-mother was surely a 'tres comme il faut,'" but she did ...
— Paula the Waldensian • Eva Lecomte

... every description, surrounded by groups looking on or playing. Through the atmosphere blue with the smoke women, many of them lavishly costumed as if for a ball, strolled risking or responding to gallantries. The garb of the men themselves ran the scale: from the comme il faut of slender shoes, fashionably cut coats and pantaloons, and modish cravats, through the campaign uniforms of army officers and enlisted men, to the frontier corduroy and buckskin of surveyors and adventurers, the flannel shirts, red, blue and gray, the jeans and cowhide boots of trainmen, teamsters, ...
— Desert Dust • Edwin L. Sabin



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