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–noun

1.	conventional requirements as to social behavior; proprieties of conduct as established in any class or community or for any occasion.

2.	a prescribed or accepted code of usage in matters of ceremony, as at a court or in official or other formal observances.

3.	the code of ethical behavior regarding professional practice or action among the members of a profession in their dealings with each other: medical etiquette.

[Origin: 1740–50; < F étiquette, MF estiquette ticket, memorandum, deriv. of estiqu(i)er to attach, stick < Gmc. See stick², -ette

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—Synonyms 1. Etiquette, decorum, propriety imply observance of the formal requirements governing behavior in polite society. Etiquette refers to conventional forms and usages: the rules of etiquette. Decorum suggests dignity and a sense of what is becoming or appropriate for a person of good breeding: a fine sense of decorum. Propriety (usually plural) implies established conventions of morals and good taste: She never fails to observe the proprieties.

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et·i·quette Audio Help (ět'ĭ-kět', -kĭt) Pronunciation Key
n. The practices and forms prescribed by social convention or by authority.

[French, from Old French estiquet, label; see ticket.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
etiquette

1750, from Fr. étiquette "prescribed behavior," from O.Fr. estiquette "label, ticket." The sense development in Fr. is from small cards written or printed with instructions for how to behave properly at court (cf. It. etichetta, Sp. etiqueta), and/or from behavior instructions written on a soldier's billet for lodgings (the main sense of the O.Fr. word).

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etiquette
noun
rules governing socially acceptable behavior

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
etiquette [ˈetiket] noun

rules for correct or polite behaviour between people, or within certain professions
Example: medical/legal etiquette

Arabic:	آداب السُّلوك
Chinese (Simplified):	礼节,成规
Chinese (Traditional):	禮節,成規
Czech:	etiketa
Danish:	etikette; takt og tone
Dutch:	etiquette
Estonian:	etikett, kutse-eetika
Finnish:	etiketti, ammattietiikka
French:	convenances
German:	gute Umgangsformen (pl.)
Greek:	εθιμοτυπία, πρωτόκολλο
Hungarian:	etikett
Icelandic:	siðir og siðareglur
Indonesian:	sopan santun, etiket
Italian:	etichetta, etica professionale*

Japanese:	作法
Korean:	예의, 예법, 에티켓
Latvian:	etiķete, uzvedības normas
Lithuanian:	etiketas
Norwegian:	skikk og bruk, takt og tone
Polish:	etykieta, dobre obyczaje
Portuguese (Brazil):	etiqueta
Portuguese (Portugal):	etiqueta
Romanian:	legi nescrise
Russian:	этикет; (профессиональная) этика
Slovak:	etiketa
Slovenian:	pravila obnašanja
Spanish:	etiqueta, protocolo
Swedish:	etikett, hederskodex
Turkish:	görgü (kuralları)

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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.

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