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Arbiter elegantiarum

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An authority on manners or etiquette. uncountable

    "We had many books to teach us our more important duties, and to settle opinions in philosophy or politicks ; but an Arbiter Elegantiarum, a judge of propriety, was yet wanting, who should survey the track of daily conversation, and free it from thorns and prickles, which teaze the passer, though they do not wound him."

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin arbiter (“judge”, noun) + Latin ēlegantiārum (“of elegance”, noun form) (genitive plural of ēlegantia); originally applied to Petronius in the court of Nero.

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