Bon ton
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 the fashionable elite wordnet
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
Borrowed from French bon ton (literally “good tone”).