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Comme il faut

/ˌkʌmiːlˈfəʊ/

Proper; in keeping with etiquette or social standards.

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adjective
  1. 1

    Proper; in keeping with etiquette or social standards.

    "2007: Talking during performances is perfectly comme il faut in Wharton – why else go to a show if not to talk to one’s friends? – so while Miss Shaw, up to her bosom in dirt, went on about existence, I asked my female companion for advice. — Deborah Friedell, ‘Short Cuts’, London Review of Books 29:5"

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