manners
See also: Manners
English
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[edit]manners
Noun
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- Etiquette.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 39”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
- O, how thy worth with manners may I sing,
When thou art all the better part of me?
- Good manners.
- 1936, Dorothy Parker, “The Little Old Lady in Lavender Silk”, in The collected poetry of Dorothy Parker, page 170:
- When you come to this time of abatement, / To this passing from Summer to Fall, / It is manners to issue a statement / As to what you got out of it all.
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