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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: etiquette n : rules governing socially acceptable behavior
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