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‖ mœurs, n. pl.|mœrs, mœr|
[Fr.:—L. mōrēs, pl. of mos custom.]
The behaviour, customs, or habits of a people or a group of people.
1922Blunden Bonadventure xxi. 136 So strongly did I feel that in his hours of leisure and coallessness he was a critic of verse and mœurs that I almost asked him his name. 1940H. G. Wells Babes in Darkling Wood ii. i. 145, I am a student of human behaviour. I am—how shall I call it?—an experimentalist in mœurs. 1954I. Murdoch Under Net xiv. 192, I sat..reflecting on the difference between French and English literary mœurs. 1957L. Durrell Bitter Lemons 34 Yet side by side with this crude and graceless world the true Mediterranean moeurs lingered. 1965New Statesman 14 May 774/2 Mr. Baker's evident ambition was to present us with an authentic portrait of fleeting teenage moeurs. |