"bon ton" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1839, The Quarterly Review, volume 64, page 555",
          "text": "This part of the proposition is very popular, particularly with the higher and middle classes, because it is the fashion, and a mark of bon ton, to enclose one's letter in an envelope, even though, or perhaps because, it subjects it to double postage.",
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        "The height of fashion; fashionable society."
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