Etiquette

For other uses, see Etiquette (disambiguation).
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In Company Shocked at a Lady Getting up to Ring the Bell (1805) James Gillray caricatured "A widow and her suitors, who seem to have forgotten their manners in the intensity of their admiration."[1]

Etiquette (/ˈɛtikɛt, -kɪt/) is the set of norms of personal behaviour in polite society, usually occurring in the form of an ethical code of the expected and accepted social behaviours that accord with the conventions and norms observed and practised by a society, a social class, or a social group. In modern English usage, the French word étiquette (label and tag) dates from the year 1750.[2]

  1. ^ Wright; Evans (1851). Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray. p. 473. OCLC 59510372.
  2. ^ Brown, Lesley, ed. (1993). "Etiquette". The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. p. 858.