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"text": "2007: Talking during performances is perfectly comme il faut in Wharton – why else go to a show if not to talk to one’s friends? – so while Miss Shaw, up to her bosom in dirt, went on about existence, I asked my female companion for advice. — Deborah Friedell, ‘Short Cuts’, London Review of Books 29:5"
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"sense": "proper; in keeping with etiquette or social standards",
"word": "fatsoenlijk"
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"word": "комильфо́"
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"text": "2007: Talking during performances is perfectly comme il faut in Wharton – why else go to a show if not to talk to one’s friends? – so while Miss Shaw, up to her bosom in dirt, went on about existence, I asked my female companion for advice. — Deborah Friedell, ‘Short Cuts’, London Review of Books 29:5"
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"sense": "proper; in keeping with etiquette or social standards",
"word": "comme il faut"
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"sense": "proper; in keeping with etiquette or social standards",
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"sense": "proper; in keeping with etiquette or social standards",
"word": "come si deve"
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"sense": "proper; in keeping with etiquette or social standards",
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"sense": "proper; in keeping with etiquette or social standards",
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