Etiquette

Noun



 * 1) 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.
 * 2) The customary behavior of members of a profession, business, law, or sports team towards each other.


 * 1) A label used to indicate that a letter is to be sent by airmail.

Quotations

 * 1885, Gilbert & Sullivan, The Mikado
 * If you think we are worked by strings, / Like a Japanese marionette, / You don't understand these things / It is simply Court etiquette.
 * 2001, Eric R. Wolf, Sydel Silverman, Aram A. Yengoyan, Pathways of Power: Building an Anthropology of the Modern World, page 182
 * These then influence other groups, who recut and reshape their patterns of interpersonal etiquettes to fit those utilized by the tone-setting group.

Related terms

 * etiquettal

Adjectives for Etiquette
fixed; punctilious; stiff; established; courtly; exclusive; rigid.

Verbs for Etiquette
apply—; conduct with—; educate in—; im¬pose by—; inform on—; judge by—; looseh—; observe—; polish—; practise—; prescribe—; require—; study—; transact with—; transgress—; —bans; —demands; — forbids; —improves; —obliges; —prohibits; —tames ; —ties.

Thesaurus
amenities, approbatory, approving, behavior, bienseance, bon ton, civilities, civility, comity, commendatory, complimentary, conduct, conformity, consuetude, convenance, convention, conventional usage, conventionalism, conventionality, correct deportment, correctness, courtesy, courtliness, custom, decencies, decency, decorousness, decorum, deportment, dignity, diplomatic code, discourtesy, elegance, elegancies, encomiastic, established way, eulogistic, exquisite manners, fashion, folkway, form, formalities, formality, good behavior, good citizenship, good form, good manners, laudatory, manner, manners, misbehavior, mores, natural politeness, observance, panegyrical, point of etiquette, politeness, politesse, poor behavior, practice, praiseful, praxis, prescription, proper thing, proprieties, propriety, protocol, punctilio, quiet good manners, ritual, rules of conduct, sanctioned behavior, seemliness, sociability, social code, social conduct, social convention, social graces, social procedures, social usage, standard behavior, standard usage, standing custom, time-honored practice, tradition, usage, use, way, what is done, wont, wonting

Etymology
1740, from étiquette: "property, a little piece of paper, or a mark or title, affixed to a bag or bundle, expressing its contents, a label, ticket" from  estiquette: from  estiquette: from estechier: "to attach, stick", (compare  estiquier: "to stick, pierce"), of  origin, from  *undefined: from  from. Akin to stehhan: "to stick, attach, nail" ( stechen: "to stick"),  stician: "to pierce, stab, be fastened". The French Court of Louis XIV at Versailles used étiquettes, "little cards", to remind courtiers to keep off of the grass and similar rules. More at stick (verb), stitch.

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