savoir vivre
noun
savoir vi·vre
-¦vēvr(ᵊ),
-v(rə)
: ability to live elegantly : observance of the usages of fashionable society
Word History
Etymology
French savoir-vivre, literally, knowing how to live
First Known Use
1745, in the meaning defined above
- railroad furniture
- railroad jack
- railroad man
- railroad manila
- railroad sickness
- railroad spike
- railroad station
- railroad vine
- railroad worm
- railroaded
- railroader
- railroaders
- railroadiana
- railroading
- railroadings
- railroads
- rails
- rails (against)
- rails (at or against)
- rails against
- rails at or against
- railside
- railway
- railway artillery
- railway bridge