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Comme il faut

//ˌkʌmilˈfoʊ// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Proper; in keeping with etiquette or social standards.

    ""Georgiana, put on your blue muslin, and ask Fanchette to make your hair a little comme-il-faut; and pray try to look well and cheerful; you were not up late, and ought to appear the better for it.""

Adjective
  1. 1
    according with custom or propriety wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from French comme il faut (literally “as is necessary, as must be”).

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