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good breeding Often hyphened.
[See breeding vbl. n. 3, 4.]
A polite education; courteous bearing or correct manners resulting from such an education.
1665Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xx. (1848) 287 Young Ladies, whose Parents..condemn'd that which at the Court was wont to be called good Breeding [etc.]. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 93 It being accounted among them no good breeding to let their Legs or Feet be seen whilst sitting. 1711Addison Spect. No. 119 ⁋2 An unconstrained Carriage, and a certain Openness of Behaviour, are the Height of Good-breeding. 1768Sterne Sent. Journ. (1778) I. 72 (In Street) Had I serv'd seven years apprenticeship to good-breeding, I could not have done as much. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 397 Her authority was supreme in all matters of good breeding, from a duel to a minuet. 1863M. L. Whately Ragged Life Egypt xx. 204 Eastern good-breeding always prevented any surprise from being shown at what they did not expect. |