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Savoir-vivre

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Noun
  1. 1
    Familiarity with the customs of polite society. uncountable

    "Like it or not, we are more invested in France, which has come to epitomise culture, good taste, style and savoir-vivre – even though that reverence is the product of ignorance as much as familiarity."

Etymology

Borrowed from French savoir-vivre, a nominalization of the verb phrase savoir vivre "to know how to live."

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