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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: rules governing socially acceptable behavior

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French étiquette, literally, ticket — more at ticket Date: 1750 the conduct or procedure required by good breeding or prescribed by authority to be observed in social or official life

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the conventional rules of social behaviour. 2 a the customary behaviour of members of a profession towards each other. b the unwritten code governing this (medical etiquette). Etymology: F étiquette label, etiquette

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Etiquette Et"i*quette`, n. [F. prop., a little piece of paper, 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Etiquette is a set of customs and rules for polite behaviour, especially among a particular class of people or in a particular profession. This was such a great breach of etiquette, he hardly knew what to do. = protocol

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Prescribed form (of behavior, as that set down on a card or ticket on the occasion of ceremonies at court), fashionable ceremony, ceremonial code, forms of good-breeding, conventional decorum.

Foolish Dictionary

A convenient code of conduct which makes Lying a virtue and Snobbishness a righteous deed.

Moby Thesaurus

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