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‖ comme il faut, adv. and pred. a.|kɔm il fo|
[Fr., lit. ‘as it is necessary’.]
‘As it should be’, proper(ly); according to etiquette; correct(ly) in deportment or behaviour. Also as n.
1756Walpole Lett. (1857) III. 8 True critics..maintain that we are not dead comme il faut. 1818Lady Morgan Fl. Macarthy III. iii. 158, I would not present in my own exclusive circle one who was not in all points comme il faut. 1824L. M. Hawkins Annaline I. 96 It would have been more comme il faut for me to have taken that step. 1857Bagehot Wks. (1965) II. 17 To touch lightly the light things of society, to see the comme-il-faut. 1857Macaulay in Trevelyan Life (1878) II. xiv. 459, I make large allowance for the difference of manners; but it never can have been comme il faut in any age or nation for a man of note..to be constantly asking for money. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. i. i, ‘Who are these Langens? Does anybody know them?’ ‘They are quite comme il faut.’ 1914G. B. Shaw Fanny's First Play iii. 207 Miss Knox is a lady absolutely comme il faut. 1935Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Sept. 598/1 Two extremes of womanhood, Clancy Todd the Irish tom-boy and Catherine, the beautiful English lady comme il faut. |