decorum
/dɪˈkɔːɹəm/ noun C2- Appropriate social behavior.
- A convention of social behavior.
Plural decora
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Rachel Lynde’s door without due regard for decency and decorum; it probably was conscious that Mrs.
“Because honour, decorum, prudence--nay, interest--forbid it.
It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most country-town indifference to decorum.”
Collins’s fancying himself in love with her friend had once occurred to Elizabeth within the last day or two: but that Charlotte could encourage him seemed almost as far from possibility as that she could encourage him herself; and her astonishment was consequently so great as to overcome at first the bounds of decorum, and she could not help crying out,--
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