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Etiquette
Et′i-quetteˊ
,Noun.
[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.