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Bon ton

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The height of fashion; fashionable society. dated, uncountable

    "This part of the proposition is very popular, particularly with the higher and middle classes, because it is the fashion, and a mark of bon ton, to enclose one's letter in an envelope, even though, or perhaps because, it subjects it to double postage."

  2. 2
    the fashionable elite wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from French bon ton (literally “good tone”).

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