"politesse" meaning in English

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          "text": "So if you meet me, have some courtesy / Have some sympathy, and some taste / Use all your well-learned politesse / Or I'll lay your soul to waste",
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          "ref": "1978, Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea, Vintage, published 1999, pages 56–57:",
          "text": "The reference in his letter to ‘having a drink’ is of course just an empty politesse.",
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          "sense": "civility, courtesy",
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