etiquetten.
/ˈɛtᵻkɛt/, /ˈɛtᵻkət/, U.S. /ˈɛdəkət/, /ˈɛdəˌkɛt/ 1.
a. The system of ceremony prescribed by a court; (also) the customary formalities required in diplomatic relations; protocol.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > prescribed rule of conduct > prescribed formalities
etiquette1737
1737 London Mag. Jan. 38/1 All the Court were Spectators of this Accident, but no body succour'd her; the Etiquette formally oppos'd it.
1750 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 19 Mar. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1515 Without hesitation kiss his [sc. the Pope's] slipper, or whatever else the étiquette of that Court requires.
1763 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 14 July (1932) (modernized text) VI. 2508 Over head and ears engaged in ceremony and étiquette.
1817 E. Baines Hist. Wars French Revol. II. v. vii. 486/1 The conferences..were conducted with due regard to diplomatic etiquette.
1895 Argosy Dec. 200/2 Giving and receiving many beautiful presents, after the tiresome ceremonies which Spanish etiquette prescribes for all court functionaries.
1918 C. A. Shriner Wit, Wisdom & Foibles of Great 622/1 Court etiquette demands that all coins of the realm passed to the sovereign should be new and unused.
1999 K. Hickman Daughters of Britannia (2000) viii. 182 The formal and ritual nature of diplomatic life, with its ready emphasis on protocol and etiquette, seemed old fashioned.
b. The customary code of polite behaviour in society; good manners.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [noun] > good manners or polite behaviour
mannersa1425
mannerlinessa1500
behavioura1601
etiquette1757
company manners1798
party manners1873
the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > prescribed rule of conduct > collectively
etiquette1757
dos and don'ts1885
1757 W. Burke Acct. European Settlem. Amer. I. iii. vi. 233 Their ladies are little celebrated for their chastity or domestic virtues; but they are still a good deal restrained by the old-fashioned etiquette.
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 144 I was not altogether sure of my etiquette, whether I ought to have wrote or no.
1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family IV. 10 A formal dinner; which, according to his ideas of etiquette, he thought himself obliged to give.
1871 ‘L. Carroll’ Through Looking-glass ix. 205 It isn't etiquette to cut any one you've been introduced to.
1913 J. Neil Everyday Life in Holy Land 83 To use the left hand in this way [sc. for eating] is as grave a breach of etiquette as to show the sole of the foot.
1947 Life 14 July 93/1 Etiquette also required that Barbara write a prompt and personal thank-you letter for every gift.
1982 S. Brett Murder Unprompted (1984) viii. 88 Etiquette had demanded that none of the cast should leave until the last of their guests had gone.
2010 M. A. Guffey & D. Loewy Business Communication (ed. 7) ii. 69 An awareness of courtesy and etiquette can give you a competitive edge in the job market.
c. The order of procedure established by custom in the armed forces (esp. with reference to promotion and hierarchy), or in a legislative body, etc.
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1780 Parl. Reg. 1775–80 XVI. 49 He..added a few words in justification of some deviations from the military etiquette, respecting rank and promotion.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. v. 512 It was to him that, in etiquette, the command of the expedition belonged.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 667 A proceeding, conducted..with such minute attention to prescriptive etiquette.
1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. xx. 459 The later etiquette of procedure on money bills, will be sought in vain in the rolls of the mediæval parliaments.
1906 C. Fowler Let. 9 Sept. in Rocky Mountain Sailor (1998) v. 151 The Officer-of-the-Deck..refused him the hands, so, according to Naval etiquette, he could do nothing more.
2011 2nd Rep. Financial Scrutiny Dept. Transport 8/1 I want to observe the etiquette; I don't want to find that I have fallen foul of the Speaker's rules.
d. An unwritten code of conduct followed by members of certain professions, esp. medicine and law. Chiefly with modifying word or phrase.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > prescribed rule of conduct > collectively > of certain professions or spheres
etiquette1788
ethics1789
1788 World 10 Jan. It was agreed, out of regard to professional etiquette, to adjourn the hearing of the merits of Mr. Staple's Convictions.
1854 Fraser's Mag. 50 269 Huggery and undue familiarity with attorneys are forbidden by the etiquette of the Bar.
1868 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. (1876) ii. 15 The etiquette of certain professional functions prescribes that a service should be divided.
1887 T. Fowler Princ. Morals ii. iv Lawyers, doctors, clergymen, bankers are said to have a code of honour, or, what amounts to the same thing, to observe certain rules of professional etiquette.
1902 H. N. Williams Madame de Pompadour 309 Professional etiquette apparently forbade him to make any examination of the wound until Martinière arrived on the scene.
1929 H. H. Richardson Fortunes Richard Mahony III. iii. v. 279 Usen't Richard to say that it was etiquette in the profession to treat a patient's relatives..as so many cretins?
1961 ABA Jrnl. June 537/1 He had sensitive good manners and always followed the etiquette of the profession in advocacy.
2003 D. Wilson Tripletree (2004) 92 Mr Justice Scanley..came as near as the etiquette of the legal profession allows to issuing a public reprimand.
e. The customary behaviour of members of a particular social or professional group, sports team, etc., towards each other. Chiefly with modifying word or phrase.
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1877 W. H. Thomson Five Years' Penal Servitude iii. 147 It is the etiquette among prisoners never to ask a man what he is in for.
1896 Argosy Feb. 465/1 Fearing to contravene some nicety of nautical etiquette, the matter is referred to the boatman.
1905 D. G. Phillips Plum Tree 273 A stickler for the etiquette of campaigning.
1938 T. H. White Sword in Stone i. 8 Saturdays, the theory of chivalry, with the proper measures to be blown on all occasions, terminology of the chase and hunting etiquette.
1942 M. Dickens One Pair of Feet vii. 108 Nurse Dickens had no idea of hospital etiquette.
1975 Times 29 Aug. 6/4 In breach of the game's etiquette, one fourball..attempted without invitation or request to ‘play through’ the slower group.
1993 N.Y. Times 19 Oct. c11/1 On-line etiquette strongly favors answering electronic mail.
2009 K. Kneen Affection 151 There exists a kind of dating etiquette, I realised, that I had never learned.
2. A rule of etiquette (sense 1); an act, practice, or custom prescribed by etiquette. Usually in plural.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > prescribed rule of conduct > collectively > a rule or point of
etiquette1764
1764 Beauties of all Mag. Sel. Feb. 94/2 His serene highness did not chuse to remain longer tied to such irksome etiquettes of state.
1779 J. Burgoyne Let. to Constituents (ed. 3) 7 A court etiquette was invented..viz. that the persons whose conduct was so put in question, should not appear at Court pending the enquiry.
1812 Edinb. Rev. 20 76 Some of the etiquettes known in our legal and parliamentary oratory.
1858 W. M. Thackeray Virginians I. xxiii. 181 It was but a little place, his home, with its pompous ways, small etiquettes and punctilios.
1936 E. von Arnim All the Dogs of my Life i. 71 The suddenness with which an entire ordered, regular existence could be swept away, and all its etiquettes and rigidities.
1998 D. McCrone Sociol. Nationalism ii. 42 Blowing one's nose..is..set within a taken-for-granted set of social procedures and etiquettes.
3. A label.Chiefly in French or other non-English-speaking contexts.
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society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > labelling > [noun] > label, tag, or ticket
bill1474
schedule1523
label?1577
libel1603
tessera1656
check1812
price ticket1830
etiquette1831
sticker1862
tag1864
price tag1880
tab1883
tally1909
mailing label1959
swing-ticket1962
swing label1968
1831 Leicester Chron. 16 Apr. They have all etiquettes (labels), which I myself put on the bottles.
1867 Viscount Pollington Half round Old World 121 German matches..with the remarkable lines, ‘If you want a light, I'll shine so bright,’ printed on the etiquette.
1873 C. G. Leland Egyptian Sketch-bk. 24 The brass etiquette or advertisement-label cut from a sardine-box.
1989 J. E. Buerger French Daguerrotypes 196 Any long étiquettes that are affixed to the photographer's work, giving additional information about his operation, are given in French.
2011 L. Klöpping Nestlé 15 Today the Nestlé label is even more concise on the product etiquettes and packaging.
Compounds
C1. General attributive, as etiquette book, etiquette guide, etiquette lesson, etc.
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1800 Monthly Rev. Feb. 178 Ἀξιοῦν τιμῆς seems to have been an etiquette phrase in cases of this kind; in which the particular τιμῆς is not required to be stated.
1833 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. 10 ii. 116/1 Is there an etiquette-book kept in the regiment as well as an order-book?
1860 R. S. C. Chermside Artist & Craftsman xix. 282 Compilers of etiquette manuals might have found serious fault with some of the knife and fork manoeuvres.
1938 Rotarian Oct. 34/1 A fifth is ill mannered. Back to Emily Post, the etiquette authority!
1953 P. Adler House is not Home iv. 106 I scolded her constantly about this and eventually the etiquette lessons must have sunk in.
1985 Washington Post 16 June g7/2 We find ourselves faced with another etiquette dilemma.
2009 Independent 3 Mar. (Life section) 2/1 When it comes to social networking, traditional etiquette guides are effectively redundant.
C2. Instrumental and objective, as etiquette-bound, etiquette-conscious, etiquette-ridden adjs., etc.
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1843 tr. A. L. L. de Custine Empire of Czar II. xix. 141 To rise a step by more carefully dancing attendance—such is the absorbing thought of this etiquette-instructed crowd.
1848 Ainsworth's Mag. 14 311 Lively and pleasant sketches of their etiquette-persecuted queens.
1881 Pop. Sci. Monthly Aug. 459 Children detest ceremonies; in our etiquette-ridden towns too many boys are aliens under their fathers' roof.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 28 May 2/1 It is many weary months before the small English lady—etiquette-bound as the most world-worn mondaine—is at home in foreign ‘Society’.
1965 R. P. Dore Educ. in Tokugawa Japan iii. 122 Such exhortations..were not easily accepted in the rank-conscious and etiquette-ridden world of the Tokugawa samurai.
2006 Country Living Collecting (Nexis) 1 Aug. 74 Our etiquette-conscious forebears left a lavish paper trail: exquisite calling cards, dance cards [etc.].
Derivatives
ˈetiquetted adj. devoted to or bound by etiquette; prescribed by etiquette.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [adjective] > conforming > relating to established rules
ceremonious1597
formal1712
etiquettical1789
etiquetted1861
1861 H. A. Tilley Japan 385 The contrast altogether between them and the etiquetted ladies of Europe.
1922 H. Ellis Little Ess. Love & Virtue v. 111 They were forbidden, except in a few carefully etiquetted forms, the free play of courtship.
2011 Early Times (India) (Nexis) 28 Mar. The ill informed and sub-optimally etiquetted public.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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