comedy manners

comedy of manners

noun
a comedy satirizing the manners and customs of a social class, especially one dealing with the amorous intrigues of fashionable society.
Origin:
1815–25

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comedy of manners
 
—n
1.  a comedy dealing with the way of life and foibles of a social group
2.  the genre represented by works of this type

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